How about screen resolution then. 14 point may look big on an SVGA,
and be unreadable on my display. That is the whole point of
separation. By removing the platform-specific data out of the content,
the content become immune to changes in the presentation environment.
>Because, as a potential consumer of the product, it "feels wrong" to me.
>Stylesheets feel right, but the inability to put information locally,
>when appropriate, feels wrong. Intuition, based on experience, tells
>me I will want to put my fingers where your restriction says I can't...
You will loose in the long run. I would suggest that if you *really*
want to put style information directly into the document, you should
probably be lobbying browser writers to support RTF (or perhaps
Rainbow ;-)).