- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 12:44:52 +0200
- To: "Chris Wilson (PSD)" <cwilso@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "'bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM'" <bosak@atlantic-83.eng.sun.com>, "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
Chris Wilson writes: > Jon Bosak writes: > >I absolutely agree with you on this point. But I bet that not many > >people will really want to code full-blown CSS stylesheets by hand, > >either. I never found much difficulty hand-coding CSS myself. In fact, I found it easier than HTML, because of the simpler syntax and semantics of CSS compared to the rather baroque rules that valid HTML (and hence SGML) imposes. > I'd be delighted if authoring tools supported the creation of style > sheets ASAP so that users wouldn't have to hand-author them. Recall that an HTML editor which offered GUI editing of CSS-1 stylesheets was demonstrated in the exhibition of the *last* conference, at Boston. > In comparing CSS and > DSSSL, it seems that CSS is easier for most non-technical authors to > understand, so if they HAVE to hand author a style sheet, I believe it > would be easier for them to do in CSS. I suspect you are right, there, although it is difficult to do comparisons. Perhaps someone such as Jon could post the DSSSL-O translation of the 'default HTML 2.0' stylesheet at the back of the CSS-1 spec, to facilitate such comparisons. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA/W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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