- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 14:30:57 -0500
- To: cwilso@MICROSOFT.com
- CC: www-style@w3.org, bosak@atlantic-83.eng.sun.com
>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. I should note that DynaWeb can, in fact, do just this. I could send out HTML, XML, LISP, or even RTF if I wanted to...
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