When considering use of the World Wide Web for distributing information, some limitations must be kept in mind. It is especially important to remember that the author of a hypertext document has little control over the final appearance of that document. Indeed, every reader of the document may see it formatted in a somewhat different way. Modern word processing software has turned us all into amateur typographers.
Writers now worry about typefaces, point size, indents, em dashes, and leading.
When writing for the World Wide Web, an author need not be concerned with this arcana of the typographer's art. For some, this lack of control over the presentation of the text will be an insurmountable obstacle. For many others, the limitations of WWW formatting will be overridden by the advantages of the hypertext links to other networked information sources. As discussed earlier, logical text elements in HTML include paragraphs, headings, and lists. The way in which these structures are presented to the reader is determined by the particular browser being used by the reader.