- From: Chris Wilson (PSD) <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 10:43:09 -0800
- To: "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
- Cc: "'bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM'" <bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM>
If all processing is done on the server, you're essentially shipping RTF to the client... and you've either collected a lot of information about your environment from the client (information that many people don't want to provide to just anyone), or made a lot of assumptions. Our software people like this view a lot. :^) -Chris Chris Wilson cwilso@microsoft.com -[- >-----Original Message----- >bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM wrote: >... >The general question of whether it's ever necessary to provide text >processing at the client is a very good one. You could argue that all >program functions should live on the server and that the client should >never see anything but simple style declarations. (Our hardware >people like this view a lot. :-) I won't argue this here, but I will >point out that if all the processing takes place on the server, then >you don't need stylesheets as separate entities -- if the server is >generating the output on the fly, it's not significantly harder to >embed style directives in individual start tags than it is to >synthesize a stylesheet for a given document. I tried to point this >out last year, but I think that most people don't want to hear it. > >Jon > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jon Bosak, Online Information Technology Architect, Sun Microsystems >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 2550 Garcia Ave., MPK17-101, | Best is he that inuents, > Mountain View, California 94043 | the next he that followes > Davenport Group::SGML Open::ANSI X3V1 | forth and eekes out a good > ::ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8::W3C SGML ERB | inuention. >----------------------------------------------------------------------
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