- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 20:46:23 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Brooke Smith <bbos@staff.cs.su.oz.au>
- Cc: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www10.w3.org>
On Fri, 21 Apr 1995, Brooke Smith wrote: > With this talk of liking to have certain fonts, might it be good to > have customisable browsers, where the user can provide certain tags > to indicate that the enclosed text is to be drawn with font X1, where > they can define X1 to be font:sanserif size 12pt. The author can > specify the intended font/s by passing that information in the > 'html resource header' (idea defined especially for this purpose). > > THis customisation could extend further with the user/author being > able to define anything, such as H1 should be an XG7...... > This is not saying that the user and author must set up this > information before they can use this browser, but that they have the > option of customisation. Yup! You've just described exactly how stylesheets are intended to work. Hierarchical and ultimately user-overridable or -definable, and keyed to any valid tag. If you have an X windows box download Arena, <URL:http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Arena/Status>, and check out their experimental implementation of stylesheets. Can we get opinions from non-Arena browser developers as to their opinions of this system, in particular or in general? Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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