- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 21:58:20 -0400 ()
- To: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- cc: Todd Fahrner <todd@verso.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Paul Prescod wrote: > I'm not sure if there is a CSS analogue to cascading! I haven't > yet seen this idea put in practice, with the many obvious kinks > (oops! black on black!) worked out. Once we understand this, it > could probably be incorporated into DSSSL, but right now it looks > to me like a nice idea that wasn't practical. The stylesheet > author MUST provide a list of reasonable alternatives: either as > options or as separate style sheets. It may be more helpful to think of cascading in terms of combining complementary models, as in C include files or Java classes. The ability to decompose style sheets into modular pieces supplied by different folks is very useful. Dave Raggett - <dsr@w3.org> tel +1 617 258 5741 fax +1 617 258 5999 World Wide Web Consortium 545 Technology Square, Cambridge MA 02139
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