- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 22:28:01 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Drazen Kacar <dave@fly.cc.etf.hr>
- Cc: www-style@www10.w3.org
On Fri, 14 Jul 1995, Drazen Kacar wrote: > I've read the HTML 3.0 specs and Style Sheets draft and came to > conclusion that the data in the STYLE element could easily become > larger than the text of the document. There are (will be) user agents > that can apply only part of style suggestions (due to limitations of > hardware or user request) and there is no need for such agents to > parse the whole thing. Hmm - don't see much way around it unless we were do define levels of styles and negotiate that via HTTP. I definitely would not recommend that. Let's put aside for a second the question of whether <STYLE> could be abused by too much information there - *any* technology can be abused in this manner. Instead, let's consider that a well-designed collection of objects will have a hierarchy, and that hierarchical style sheets can be applied using that hierarchy. In other words, Wired magazine will have a style sheet that applies to its server as a whole, (e.g. address.align = left), to its magazine archive (P.margin = 5 ems) and a particular style that might apply to a single page (*.background = purple). If the stylesheets are arranged intelligently they can be cached quite easily, so the page-specific stylesheet can ideally be quite small. Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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