Re: unruly stylesheets vs. unruly HTML (was: battlefields)

Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:57:15 -0500


>First, the life of the information in someone's HTML documents will
>usually be much longer than the life of the style chosen for those
>documents (what happens in five years when marquees and gradients in
>the background are considered tacky, or in fifteen years, when they
>become part of retro-90's chique?).

I very much think that most people who are actually quite serious
about data longevity would never choose HTML as the canonical form in
the first place.