- From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 07:50:27 +0900
- To: "Chester, Bernard" <BChester@saros.com>, "'Bert Bos'" <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr>
- Cc: "'www-international@w3.org'" <www-international@w3.org>
At 16:26 98/01/09 -0800, Chester, Bernard wrote: > Bert: > > I've been down roads like this. I'd advise an approach that avoids > trying to enumerate all of the numbering styles possible, why not come > up with a scheme for permitting a numbering scheme to be described? And > then a subset which are "known" and can be referred to by a descriptor? I think this is very clear to all that the number of schemes is rather unlimited. Also, for a complete description of a scheme, we would need a full programming language (Turing-completeness). Everybody who knows CSS knows that this is very much against the declarative nature of CSS. So we have to see what we can do now to get a more balanced picture for numbering, and what we may be able to do in CSS3 for more flexibility. Regards, Martin.
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