- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 17:08:18 -0700
- To: <www-html@w3.org>, <www-style@w3.org>, "Paul Prescod" <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Paul Prescod wrote: > That isn't a "style sheet". It is "JavaScript styling". Sounds apt to me. One way for a UA to deal efficiently with styles is if all tags are represented internally with all possible styling attributes as properties. In this case it should be easy to open up those properties to JavaScript or other scripting for modification. An external or inline style sheet can set initial non-default values for standard tags at load time, the script can then access and modify those values thereafter. Simple. (Perhaps not so simple dealing with classes defined in a style sheet, but a "paid professional" can figure that one out.) If this rendering model is adopted by both NS and MS, then the "tag wars" could be over and the styling "property wars" begun, with new properties, such as transparency or z-depth, that can apply to a whole range of tags. This may be wishful thinking, though, since NS comments about "layers" and "absolute positioning" refer to "blocks of HTML" and may simply be new tags. David Perrell
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