However, the end-user could set the browser to render this element as underlined. From this it can be drawn that, although authors can code their intentions into HTML documents and control the document s appearance in an imprecise way, the end-user can alter the specifics of how a document ultimately appears. The power of end-users to influence the appearance of HTML documents. The ultimate inability of authors to control the appearance of their HTML documents. However, altering the standard default settings of the browser corrupts the HTML document's optimal formatting appearance as set by the author.
Many authors use formatting information to add weight and significance to parts of their documents.
Using the browser's default viewing settings With the proliferation of WWW browsers and the implicit lack of control over a document's final appearance, authors have learned to target the optimal viewing of their documents for the default settings of the most popular browsers. For the end-user, the advantage of using the browser's default view settings is that HTML documents display more or less the way the authors intended. It may also mean that, unless the default view settings are used, some documents will be difficult to read or will be unpleasant to the eye. For these reasons, it is usually advisable to leave the browser's view settings at their default values. Much of this can be attributed to the development of NCSA's Mosaic .