- From: kitblake <kitblake@gig.nl>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 10:23:37 +0100
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
Paul Prescod wrote: >At 09:36 AM 7/27/95 -0600, Benjamin C. W. Sittler wrote: >>In some ways, short-term (CSS) and long-term (DSSSL) stylesheet >>initiatives are already underway. > >CSS is what I would call "medium-term." It is going to be non-trivial to >implement. The subset I am talking about _would_ be trivial to implement. >It isn't much more than Mosaic and Netscape already allow in prefs or >.xresources. I suppose it is a little sad that we have to subset a subset, >but that is the state of the world we live in. =) > >Furthermore CSS is in a massive state of flux, as well it should be. I >don't think it should be hurried by short-term thinkers who need green text >_today_. But if we wait much longer I think we jepordize our forward >momentum. HTML 3 wasn't created in one shot. Perhaps nobody would have >implemented it if it were. May I suggest that this sub-subset up the ante a bit, and add more functionality than is presently possible with Netscape HTML. These could be mainly cosmetic things. This would provide a reason for users and browsers to migrate towards style sheets. kitblake
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