Re: Directory Trees (fwd)

Once upon a time Paul Prescod shaped the electrons to say...
>Recognize? Probably. Mandate its use? In competition to VBScript? Maybe
>not.

Microsoft is backing ECMAScript - in fact they claim IE 4.0 is compliant
which makes them the first vendor to be so.

>First, I didn't say that it should be part of HTML. It should be part of
>CSS and XSL.

That's different - XSL relies upon scripting.  ECMAScript actually.  So
how are we saying anythign different?

I don't think it will ever be part of CSS - unless you add scripting, but
that still isn't part of CSS.

>NOT have programming code sprinkled among each of the articles. They
>choose a certain set of interactive features and build them into their
>"style language". 

I consider XSL to have programatic syntax, as does DSSSL.

>collapsible list is a widely used formatting semantic that should be
>available everywhere to everyone, whether they want to use JavaScript or
>not.

I disagree.  If you want collapsing lists someone else will want tab
indexing, someone else will want reordering, and so it goes.  I am looking
at the big picture, there is more to this than one feature.

It is better to develop a *system* that can be tailored by the users to
what they need than to implement features one by one.

-MZ
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Received on Friday, 17 October 1997 17:50:27 UTC