Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2
by coldtea on Sunday October 27, 2019 @11:15AM
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For one, because you want to display existing, page-divided documents (e.g. books), and keep the same frame of reference (the page).
Second, because you want to print -- in which case, your artifact ends up in a page.
Third, because a screenful, even if dynamic (based on resolution, etc) is still a kind of a "page" (in HTML parlance, a "viewport"), and you might want to design to take advantage of what fits in one.
Second, because you want to print -- in which case, your artifact ends up in a page.
Third, because a screenful, even if dynamic (based on resolution, etc) is still a kind of a "page" (in HTML parlance, a "viewport"), and you might want to design to take advantage of what fits in one.