- From: Justin Wood <jw6057@bacon.qcc.mass.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 02:52:55 -0400
- To: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- CC: "W. Leon Sutton, Jr." <wsuttonjr@hyponiqs.com>, www-style@w3.org
Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> this are not possible as they should be. > > As I understand it, CSS is supposed to be a cross-platform, accessible > replacement to JavaScript and DHTML. Yet, simple tasks as > > CSS is part of DHTML. > CSS is not meant to be a "replacement to JavaScript and DHTML"...there are a few problems with that statement...let me begin with those, then say why. (1) JavaScript is netscape/Mozilla only (though others may have adapted), so no "cross-UA". [For reference JScript is M$'s, and ECMAScript + DOM 0-3 <modules> are the open, everyone] (2) CSS is part of the DHTML stuff, and far from a replacement. Now, it has been, and remains my understanding that Web Design is 3 stage process, each stage interacts heavily with each other though, "Content" (the html), "Style" (the CSS), and "Behavior" (the Scripts).... the behavior and CSS layers can become abstracted yes, but styleistic behaviors only, can be represented in CSS, though more advanced structural/other behaviors need to be still in the Script layer. Hope I explained myself well. ~Justin Wood
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