- From: Gary Adams - JavaSoft East <Gary.Adams@East.Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 08:43:37 -0500 (EST)
- To: BChester@saros.com, Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr, duerst@w3.org
- Cc: 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. There are a lot of benefits to keeping CSS essentially declarative. If there are advanced capabilities possible by allowing procedural descriptions of presentation attributes, I would like to at least encouraging describing how those capabilities could be acheived. e.g. perhaps XML/XSL has some I18N features available that are not easily acheived in HTML/CSS.
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