- From: Sally Khudairi <khudairi@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 14:59:13 -0400
- To: w3c-news@w3.org
The World Wide Web Consortium Issues CSS2 as a W3C Recommendation
Testimonials
In English: Adobe Systems · Case Western
Reserve University · Electricité de France ·
Macromedia · Microsoft · Netscape · Silicon
Graphics · SoftQuad · Studio Verso
En Français: Electricité de France · Web
Accessibility Initiative
"Inclusion of aural cascading style sheets
(ACSS) in CSS2 brings one step closer the
vision of ubiquitous information access in a
manner best suited to the user's needs.
Motivated initially by the need to present
Webformation efficiently to users with visual
impairments (see Emacspeak for the first
ACSS enabled user environment) -- ACSS
will have a significant impact on the use of
the WWW by functionally blind users such
as automobile drivers wishing to browse
information when on the road. Like the
invention of the telephone (which was a
direct consequence of work on hearing aids)
ACSS once again proves the benefits of
work on alternative interfaces to all users."
-- T. V. Raman, Advanced Technology
Group, Adobe Systems Incorporated
"Together with W3C and NIST, Case
Western Reserve University has established
a CSS1 test suite. This suite is provided
freely and openly to browser developers
and Web designers alike, so that they may
test current and upcoming implementations
of CSS support. Testing will soon expand to
cover CSS2 as well, and will be improved
over time by community feedback and input.
CWRU is proud of its role in creating this
suite, and we hope it will be useful to the
Web community as a whole."
-- Eric A. Meyer, Hypermedia Systems
Manager, Case Western Reserve
University
"Electricité de France, the largest electricity
producer in the world, believes that CSS 2
is a major spec that will help us building,
managing and distributing our internal
documents, and will make the distribution of
our on-line corporate information easier. We
are now waiting for vendors' support and
expect from their tools a full conformance to
the specification. We'd like to congratulate
W3C for this spec and especially for the
Aural Style Sheets section."
-- Jean-Marie Bernard, Chief of Data
Processing and Applied Mathematics
Department, Electricité de France
"CSS2 is a major step forward in bringing
precise control of visual design to the web.
As members of the W3C and as an active
participant in the CSS working group,
Macromedia is committed to increasing the
web's expressiveness and helping to
develop leading-edge tools that support the
W3C standards for web designers."
-- Sho Kuwamoto, Senior Software
Engineer, Macromedia Dreamweaver
" W3C has successfully moved a critical
standard forward with CSS2. Microsoft is
committed to standards and provides
leading support for CSS today in Internet
Explorer 4.0."
-- David Cole, Vice President of Web
Client and Consumer Experience
Division, Microsoft
"Today's announcement regarding the
Cascading Style Sheets 2 specification
(CSS2) is great news for Internet users and
the Internet developer community at large.
CSS provides a style sheet language which
gives developers and users rich control over
the display of HTML and XML documents.
As the first commercial product to
demonstrate the use of Cascading Style
Sheets with both HTML and XML in the
source code for Netscape Communicator
5.0, Netscape continues to recognize the
importance of open standard technology
and the role the W3C plays in its
development. Netscape looks forward to
supporting CSS2 in a future version of
Communicator."
--Jim Hamerly, Vice President, Client
Products, Netscape
"CSS2 will vastly improve the ability of an
HTML authors and users to obtain the
formatting results they desire without
recourse to awkward HTML constructs
never intended for the purpose. In addition,
CSS2's inclusion of support for aural style
sheets will be important for both the visually
impaired as well as those who need to get
information without reading a computer
screen or printout."
-- Douglas Rand, Technical Staff, Web
Publishing, Silicon Graphics, Inc.
"SoftQuad has always been committed to
providing standards-based solutions to our
customers. The new CSS2 specification
represents an important milestone in
defining interoperable style formats for use
on the web. The style sheet language
includes many important features and
functions web authors have been asking for.
We are committed to providing more CSS
support in our authoring tools."
-- Lauren Wood, Technical Product
Manager, SoftQuad, Inc.
"With CSS2 and the Core Styles, CSS
moves beyond the 'good idea' phase and
becomes a critical element of a new, more
attractive, and manageable Web, where
substance and style complement one
another as peers."
-- Todd Fahrner, Studio Verso
"Electricité de France, premier producteur
électrique au monde, est convaincue de
l'intérêt majeur de la spécification CSS 2 qui
nous aidera à construire, gérer et publier
nos ensembles documentaires internes et
facilitera notre communication externe en
ligne. Nous attendons désormais
l'intégration de ce standard par les éditeurs
de logiciels et espérons une conformité
totale à la spécification. Nous adressons au
W3C nos félicitations pour cette
spécification, et plus particulièrement pour
la section Aural Style Sheets."
-- Jean-Marie Bernard, Chef du Service
Informatique et Mathématiques
Appliquées, Electricité de France
"Les functionalités de présentation
avancées offertes par CSS2 donnent aux
créateurs de pages Web un contrôle très
étendu sans sacrifier pour autant l'accés au
Web pour les utilisateurs handicapés. En
particulier, CSS2 améliore le contrôle de
l'utilisateur final sur la mise en page, l'ordre
de chargement des feuilles de styles, un
meilleur support pour plusieurs types de
media, et un nouvel ensemble de propriétés
pour les présentations audio."
--Judy Brewer, Directeur du Programme
International du WAI (Web Accessibility
Initiative du W3C)
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