- From: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 11:28:37 -0700
- To: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
What does it mean for this debate that the first "serious" mass-market browsers to implement CSS will also feature the ability to alter style sheets dynamically through scripting languages? I believe [youradhere]Script, in conjunction with CSS, can perform many of the selection/transformation tasks that Paul cites as unique DSSSL virtues. It may even be possible to write quite complex scripts inside local (user) stylesheets that will effectively parameterize the system, regardless of whatever classes or tagsets are in use. I am making no value judgment about the elegance of one (xxML + CSS + scripting) relative to the other (xxML + DSSSL), but browser support for the former is halfway out the birth canal, and will be deployed in perhaps 100 million instances before it could be "superseded" - which will of course complicate any such supercession enormously. __________________ Todd Fahrner mailto:fahrner@pobox.com http://www.verso.com
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