- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 23:39:54 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
Jon Bosak wrote: > > [Greg Kostello:] > | My guess is that the inventors of CSS probably looked at the DSSSL and > | designed a implementation that was simpler and hence more doable. > > Your guess is incorrect. The basic architecture of CSS was in place > before its designers examined DSSSL. (Which is not to imply that they > would have designed CSS differently if they had known about DSSSL; CSS > syntax flows naturally from its design requirements.) Small correction: we *did* study DSSSL before as well as during the design of CSS1. I talked to both Sharon and James in person to try to understand how DSSSL worked as early as August 1994. Bert
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