- From: Ian Graham <igraham@smaug.java.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 14:59:56 -0400 (EDT)
- To: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM (Jon Bosak)
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
I am sure this is true evenr for those who do understand and use styles -- After all, who would bother with styles when preparing a single page flyer for a yard sale (or Web pages for the same). Ian > <Jon Bosak> > [Adam Bosworth:] > > | 90% of Word users don't use styles because it requires a top down > | systemic model for authoring that doesn't come naturally to them. > > Right. I am as rabid a stylesheet advocate as anyone in the world, > but I believe that this approach is not for the great majority of > users. I believe that the construction of stylesheets is for advanced > users and professional designers. The reason that this relatively > small group of people is worth pursuing is because they historically > have been and (I believe) will be responsible for the production of > the great majority of pages, if not by themselves personally then by > workers who are constrained by organizational policy to work with the > typographical treatments that the designers create. There is nothing > new about this. > > Ultimately it may not be the ability of end-user tools to support the > creation of stylesheets that matters, but their ability to process the > stylesheets that they are given. > > Jon >
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