- From: G. Del Merritt <del@giant.intranet.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 95 10:05:16 EDT
- To: www-style@www10.w3.org
In-reply-to: "brian@organic.com"'s message of 14-JUL-1995 02:27:15.37 >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 > : >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. It seems that the same thoughts were in folks minds when they provided PostScript output for their product(s). In one case, I saw a file with nearly a megabyte of code that ended up printing the classic: Hello world. It wasn't even bolded or italicized, not to mention blinking... Del Merritt del@IntraNet.com IntraNet, Inc., One Gateway Center #700, Newton, MA 02158 Voice: 617-527-7020; FAX: 617-527-6779 All my opinions. Just say no to Clipper.
Received on Friday, 14 July 1995 10:10:18 UTC