- From: Jon Bosak <bosak@atlantic-83.eng.sun.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 09:09:23 -0700
- To: drand@sgi.com
- Cc: preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com, gtn@ebt.com, rieger@bse.de, TFRETER@novell.com, www-style@w3.org
[Doug Rand:] | As a standards body, W3 should make a choice of which style mechanism | is the right one for HTML. Having [one] isn't acceptable. As a DSSSL proponent I am more than sympathetic to this view, but even I have reluctantly been forced to accept a two-pronged strategy as the only way we can support some kind of typographic control relatively quickly. DSSSL is attractive to me because I know that I will need its functionality, not because I love its Lispy syntax or think that it will be easy for Joe Homepage to embed inline DSSSL fragments in his online descriptions of the family dog. In my opinion, the important thing for W3C is to be clear that DSSSL is the direction for serious, large-scale publishing based on generic SGML and not to waste its limited resources on futile efforts to expand CSS beyond its initial, simple, HTML-appropriate implementation. Jon --- Jon Bosak, SunSoft 2550 Garcia Ave., MPK17-101, Mountain View, CA 94043 A Davenport Group Sponsor http://www.ora.com/davenport/README.html
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