- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:47:31 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 01:19 -0300, Junk Account wrote:
> Please see http://www.netsnippets.com .
> The problem? it does not save formatting.
> Question: Why?
The software wasn't written that way.
> Question: Could it be done?
Yes.
> Question: What would that require, both from XHTML and from CSS?
Nothing they don't provide already, its just data.
Its just a case of the software needing to make use of it.
> Regarding CSS, and at least asuming the page author *has* used it
> whenever possible...can just the relevant rules be extracted? Not just
> the whole document CSS, be it just one sheet or many, but just the
> minimum required for identical reproduction of the selected area?
Yes. The Mozilla/Firefox DOM inspector already demonstrates that its
easy to show what CSS styles are applied to an element and in what
order.
--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>
"Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another."
-- The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Received on Monday, 26 September 2005 06:44:34 UTC