- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 17:52:34 -0400
- To: Terje Norderhaug <Terje@in-Progress.com>
- CC: neil@bigpic.com, www-style@w3.org
Terje Norderhaug wrote: > The style-sheet negotiation can be done based on knowledge about how well > different style properties work together. In other words, the renderer is > an expert system that takes the style sheets as guidelines and tries to > figure out an appropriate compromise. > > Such a negotation strategy is a contrast to a deterministic procedural > cascading mechanism and would suggest more descriptive style sheets that > contain metainformation useful for the negitation. It might be better to > follow such a path for DSSSL and leave CSS to provide the simpler cascading > approach. I feel quite the opposite. DSSSL's fully programmable model would make it very difficult to determine what two stylesheets "mean" so that you could merge them intelligently. CSS's declarative-only format is much more amenable to that. On the other hand, CSS already has a well defined cascading model, so there is really no room for the heuristics you describe. That would have to be done in some new language. Pual Prescod
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