- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 18:02:56 +0100 (MET)
- To: "Joel N. Weber II" <nemo@koa.iolani.honolulu.hi.us>, Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>, www-style@www10.w3.org
- Cc: Taylor <taylor@hotwired.com>, Chris Josephs <cpj1@visi.com>
On Feb 1, 8:07pm, Joel N. Weber II wrote: > I like programming languages. They're powerful. If they're well designed, > you can do anything with them. Once upon a time someone bought a computer. It had the best wordprocessor ever, the most elaborate graphics, a spreadsheet that was infinitely adaptable. When they turned it on, all it had was an assembler and a text editor. "Yes", replied the salesman. "But with that, you can in principle do anything". > Is it possible to create a WYSIWYG editor for using other values as a simple > function? I don't know. Yes, provided the number of properties is limited and circular references are not possible. Essentially, if it comes down to constant evaluation. An example where this sort of reference is possible is font editors, which do allow for example the e acute glyph to contain a reference to the e glyph and a reference, perhaps scaled or translated, to the acute accent. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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