- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 12:16:02 -0500
- To: porad@smallworld.com
- Cc: young@cs.purdue.edu, thomasre@microsoft.com, www-style@w3.org, html-erb@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
From: Scott Porad <porad@smallworld.com> | | Would someone mind explaining to this newbie what CSS1 is? --- CSS1 is the Cascading Style Sheet (level 1) specification, a notation for specifying the presentation of elements of an HTML document. The idea of stylesheets is to allow an author or editor or reader to specify the desired form of presentation of the material in a document, *outside* the document itself. The body of the document can then contain only structual markup - markup that indicates the nature of and relationships between internal elements of the document. The stylesheet assigns presentation attributes (like type size and style, vertical spacing, and color) to elements. CSS1 is one particular, relatively simple, notation for recording presentation style information for HTML documents. It is being developed under the auspices of the W3C. Several major browser vendors, including Microsoft and Netscape, have said that they will support CSS1 in the future. Another, more complex but more powerful, mechanism is DSSSL (Document Style Semantics and Specification Language), which is an approved ISO standard (10179:1996) for representing styling of SGML documents. The current draft of the CSS1 specification is at:; http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-css1.html for details. A good source for DSSSL information is http://www.jclark.com/dsssl scott -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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