- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:46:53 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- cc: Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@hotmail.com>, <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Ian Hickson wrote: >>>[BECSS] >> The working group recently restarted working on this. Ideas from BECSS, >> HTCs, AS, XBL, CSSUI and other proposed languages and extensions are >> all being carefully considered. > > Three questions: > > * What have CSSUI and BECSS in common? Not much. Both have things in common with HTCs, XBL and AS though (namely, CSSUI has stuff to do with UI and AS has stuff to do with script). > * What's "AS"? ActionSheets. An old Netscape proposal. > * How do XBL, HTC and BECSS help CSS to fullfill it's goal to provide > a way to "attach style to structured documents"? They don't. They help another goal, which is the ability to attach style to web based applications, a fuzzy concept for which there is a lot of demand and for which Microsoft, Netscape and others are currently developing non-interoperable solutions. Since the aim of the W3C is to increase interoperability of web based solutions, the W3C is where those companies are coming together to discuss their solutions. The CSS working group is the home of this project through happenstance -- the right people being in the same place at the same time -- rather than anything else. As this area grows, it is quite possible that one or more other working groups will be formed to cover the issue. -- Ian Hickson )\ _. - ._.) fL Invited Expert, CSS Working Group /. `- ' ( `--' The views expressed in this message are strictly `- , ) - > ) \ personal and not those of Netscape or Mozilla. ________ (.' \) (.' -' ______
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