Each reader of a document may see it formatted in a somewhat different way. How a page appears to a reader depends on the reader's computer platform, capabilities of his graphics card, his choice of Web browser, and the options he chooses to set on his browser. F or example, if you are viewing this page with graphics turned off, then you aren't seeing the parchment-like background. Perhaps worse, if you have only a 16-color graphics card, then the background appears splotchy and you are wondering why I made such a mess of my document. M odern 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 others, the limitations of WWW formatting will be overridden by the advantages of the hypertext links to other networked information sources. A s discussed earlier, logical text elements in HTML include paragraphs, headings, and lists. The way in which these elements are presented to the reader is determined by the reader's choice of browser and browser options.