- From: H&kon W Lie <howcome@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 16:10:05 --100
- To: young@cs.purdue.edu
- Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org, howcome@www4.cern.ch
Michal Young writes: > > Hakon's format is broken into manageable, logical chunks > > that allow for extensibility and ease of parsing. > > Although these examples look more human-readable than the lisp-like syntax > of a previous dssl-lite proposal, it seems to be a step backward in > extensibility and ease of parsing. So far, the emphasis has been on designing a language that people, with a minimal knowledge of HTML and typography, will understand intuitively. I've written a parser for the style sheet language, and so has Bill Perry. It's not too hard. When the style sheet language settles down a bit, we will have to describe it using a formal scheme. Formalism may even influence the final specification, but shouldn't be our main concern at this point. > there > should be a very clear demarcation of a kernel long-lived style sheet > language from a set of particular facilities that match contemporary DTP. Agreed. Also the support for non-visual media will require extensibility both in the list of setable properties and the measurement units: H1: volume = 50db While keeping the core (address: property = unit) intact. -h&kon Hakon W Lie, WWW project CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/People/howcome/
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