- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 08:21:45 -0500
- To: bosak@atlantic-83.eng.sun.com
- Cc: Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr, cwilso@microsoft.com, www-style@w3.org
From: bosak@atlantic-83.eng.sun.com (Jon Bosak) | I agree that it would be useful to have a dsssl-o version of the } default HTML 2.0 stylesheet at the back of the CSS1 spec. While no | such thing exists at present, I did some rooting around and came up | with something similar that was written, I believe, by James Clark a } year or so ago. ... --- An interesting hint of what it can do. I like the style (LISP is still my favorite language). I like the natural way it supports, for instance, arithmetic on indentations and sizes. I'm a little curious whether it supports anything like the context selectors in CSS1 (does that "(element (ul li)..." mean an li inside a ul?). Is the context stacck exposed to the code in the element descriptions (can you treat it like an a-list or like the environment in a closure)? What makes me really nervous about this notation is whether it implies more than it delivers. Is it really Scheme or does it just use the notation and allow a few of the operations in specific places? Of course, the more pressing question is whether anybody is going to implement it in a common-use browser... scott -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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