- From: Douglas Rand <drand@sgi.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 10:19:06 -0400
- To: Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Hakon Lie wrote: > > Scott E. Preece writes: > > > I love stylesheets; I wish they had them in Netscape today. I also > > understand how it might be a major engineering job to re-work things so > > they fit. > > It isn't. The formatting engines of modern graphical browsers can do > most of the visual work already. To support CSS contextual selectors, > the browser needs the concept of a stack of open elements. If you > start from scratch there is some work to be done here, but -- as Chris > Wilson described at WWW5 in May -- it's doable for one person on a > tight time line. > If you had sample code for a context lookup, I think alot of browsers could indeed support CSS1 within a few weeks. I'd like to at least see a published algorithm, not necessarily optimal, for the lookup code. Doug -- Doug Rand <drand@sgi.com> (508) 567 - 2217 Silicon Graphics/Silicon Desktop http://reality.sgi.com/drand Disclaimer: These are my views, SGI's views are in 3D
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