- From: David Megginson <dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 05:46:38 -0500
- To: Hakon Lie <Hakon.Lie@sophia.inria.fr>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
I think that the Håkon is right to suggest that stylesheets are a better place for vendor battles than are the HTML standards. First, the life of the information in someone's HTML documents will usually be much longer than the life of the style chosen for those documents (what happens in five years when marquees and gradients in the background are considered tacky, or in fifteen years, when they become part of retro-90's chique?). One company or organisation could maintain hundreds or thousands of HTML pages, all sharing the same standard style sheet -- if Ne**pe or Mi**ft continue to introduce incompatible features, only the single stylesheet will need to be changed (or served out conditionally depending on the browser type). This doesn't eliminate the problem, but it reduces it drastically. David -- David Megginson Department of English, University of Ottawa, dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1N 6N5 ak117@freenet.carleton.ca Phone: (613) 562-5800 ext.1203 WWW: http://www.uottawa.ca/~dmeggins FAX: (613) 562-5990
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