- From: Douglas Rand <drand@sgi.com>
- Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 14:52:07 -0700
- To: Jordan Reiter <jreiter@mail.slc.edu>
- CC: "Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, www-style@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
Jordan Reiter wrote: > 1) are there any other style types in the works (I haven't heard of any) As Liam Quinn has mentioned, both Javascript style sheets and DSSSL are available. > 2) if there are, shouldn't there be some way to use more than one style > in a > page? I don't know that this follows. If you look at the JSSS stuff, it is essentially (I'm sure someone at Netscape will correct this if I'm wrong) a way of getting at CSS properties from JavaScript and supply matching rules. So I don't see an advantage there. For DSSSL it would seem that for the most part, CSS has attempted to remain in line with the properties available from DSSSL. Most of the rest of the reason for using DSSSL, which is considerable, is due to the ability to manipulate the document tree and perform more programmatic manipulations. It would seem to me that these manipulations cannot be profitably performed on individual elements in situ. So what remains for both JSSS and DSSSL once you remove the programmatic nature, as I believe you must to process per-element style declarations, is essentially the same as CSS. Doug -- Doug Rand drand@sgi.com Silicon Graphics/SSO http://reality.sgi.com/drand Disclaimer: These are my views, SGI's views are in 3D
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