Re: Netscape & New HTML

lamport@src.dec.com
Thu, 20 Oct 94 11:25:07 -0700

The following are much better:

<p>Some text
</p>
<p align=center>Some centered text</p>
<p>some more regular text
</p>

or,

<h1 align=center>This is a H1 heading</h1>

I presume one would also write

<p font=10pt Helvetica with 2 pt leading>Some text</p>

I'm glad HTML will express only the logical structure of a document,
and not be a formatting language. If HTML were a formatting language,
it would have to include all those nasty features that are needed to
format real documents, and people might start asking embarrassing
questions--like why invent a new formatting language when perfectly
adequate ones already exist?

Leslie Lamport