CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:



CA>> Until recently people had small monitors and are now, again, using 
CA>> smaller monitors with the popularity of laptops. Everyone is not 
CA>> using 1024x768 even though the popular notion is that they are. 

RJT> Nor is everybody using 800x600. I still have monitors (the one I'm 
RJT> looking at as I type this included) that won't go beyond 640x480. 
RJT> Then there's that odd IBM model that has that and 1024x768 but 
RJT> which won't do 800x600.

CA> I have one of those IBM monitors and it really was a puzzlement to
CA> me for awhile. :-)

I was warned,  when I got that monitor.  Dunno what it would do if I tried that...

The screen isn't awfully large,  and 1024x768 on it makes things *very* small!



RJT>> The whole point of HTML is that the person viewing it should have 
RJT>> their browser rendering the page optimally for their situation. 

CA>> The original 'point' of HTML was to allow college professors to 
CA>> setup spreadsheet type displays with columns of data that had 
CA>> headers for each column etc. HTML _became_ a way to layout 
CA>> graphics and other things in spite of vigorous protest from 
CA>> college types and the W3C.

RJT> I thought that the original point was being able to link documents 
RJT> to each other. 

CA> Apple 'invented' hypertext links if that's what you are referring 
CA> to.

They may claim that,  but I think Ted Nelson wrote about it before Apple
got into it,  back in 1974 or thereabouts.



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