Comments on: In Praise of HTML

By: Jeremy Osborne

Jeremy Osborne — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:48:19 +0000

I love how HTML and CSS, when used with a bit of planning and not much more common sense, allow a writer to completely separate content to be displayed from from of display. Today’s HTML tags are virtually semantically correct, too. Besides text, it’s the only content structuring format that I know of that is human readable with little to no training.

Now, styling the HTML pages, that’s for someone more publisher blood than I have in my veins.

By: Tom Colvin

Tom Colvin — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:21:26 +0000

Thanks, Benjamin. As you can plainly see, I’m a non-tech writer, struggling to learn and share. I’m making progress. I had no idea about the difference between Mac and MAC. The Linux-Linus confusion was just a stupid typo; I know better.

Your comments are much appreciated.

By: Benjamin Eavey

Benjamin Eavey — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:05:04 +0000

Good post. Some quick corrections, though: it’s a “Mac”, not a “MAC” (Mac = computer, MAC = Media Access Control). Also, it’s “Linux”, not “Linus” (Linus Torvalds is the creator of Linux, which is where the confusion comes from).

A nice little primer for people new to HTML. Good job.