- From: Gayle Kidder <reddik@sandiego.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 09:20:07 -0700
- To: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- CC: Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>, www-style@w3.org
All of this discussion I think ignores the fact that style sheets make it much easier for authors to offer different versions of a document, simply by attaching a different style sheet. Authors who are offering content-driven material for a general public that may include various physical/technological handicaps, it seems to me, should have a responsibility to post design-simple versions. Perhaps we should be looking at a way to standardize and tag these simple versions so that UAs written for special needs can automatically find them. Gayle Kidder http://www.beachmedia.com/ http://www.zoomsd.com/ Paul Prescod wrote: > > Hakon Lie wrote: > > > "One of the fundamental features of CSS is that style sheets cascade; > > > authors can attach a preferred style sheet, while the reader may have a > > > personal style sheet to adjust for human or technological handicaps. The > > > rules for resolving conflicts between different style sheets are defined > > > in this specification." > > > > There is an underlying assumtion in the quote from the specification > > that the style sheets have to be well-engineered, but this seems > > hardly necessary to write out. > > Is it not the case that *well-written* user and author stylesheets can > merge in ways that will lose data? I can think of several examples where > two reasonable people could make stylesheets that negate each other in > ways that lose information. That's why I think that it is wrong to even > encourage people to merge reader stylesheets and author stylesheets > blindly. >
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