- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 15:33:46 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
Ian Graham wrote: > DSSSL is far more powerful than CSS, but is simply too powerful > (and complicated) for the majority of people creating Web pages. I do not believe this to be true, and no amount of repetition will make it true. Let us presume that we are starting with a blank slate DTD. Let's say HTML, but the browser has no implicit stylesheet. If it helps, imagine it as HTML with the letter Q added to the front of every element so that the browser does not recognize it is HTML. Now what does the CSS stylesheet look like? What does the DSSSL stylesheet look like? Which is harder? If anyone agrees to write the CSS stylesheet, I'll write the DSSSL stylesheet and we'll see which really is harder. I'll even let you skip hard things like tables, hyperlinks and forms. We'll just talk about formatting for a simple subset of HTML -- either of us could write the DTD. I don't know enough CSS and don't have the time right now to write both. I'm really curious about this, and I'll admit if I'm wrong. It should be obvious which is easier by looking at the code. I'll post the two to my website along with my DSSSL tutorial. It will serve as an excellent tutorial for CSS-heads in DSSSL and DSSSL-heads in CSS. Who's up for it? Paul Prescod
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