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Re: An alternative strategy
From: bosak@atlantic-83.eng.sun.com (Jon Bosak)
| I agree that it would be useful to have a dsssl-o version of the
} default HTML 2.0 stylesheet at the back of the CSS1 spec. While no
| such thing exists at present, I did some rooting around and came up
| with something similar that was written, I believe, by James Clark a
} year or so ago. ...
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An interesting hint of what it can do. I like the style (LISP is still
my favorite language). I like the natural way it supports, for
instance, arithmetic on indentations and sizes.
I'm a little curious whether it supports anything like the context
selectors in CSS1 (does that "(element (ul li)..." mean an li inside
a ul?). Is the context stacck exposed to the code in the element
descriptions (can you treat it like an a-list or like the environment in
a closure)?
What makes me really nervous about this notation is whether it implies
more than it delivers. Is it really Scheme or does it just use the
notation and allow a few of the operations in specific places?
Of course, the more pressing question is whether anybody is going to
implement it in a common-use browser...
scott
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