- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 08:58:57 -0500
- To: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
- CC: bosak@atlantic-83.eng.sun.com, www-style@w3.org
>Once we have figured out the 95% of stylesheet features that 95% of all >people need (i.e. more than CSS but substantially less than "anything >you want to do"), we can define an editable, interchangable DSSSL subset >and even a DSSSL class library. In fact, simply by defining more flow >objects to handle the cases people need handled, we can make actual >programming completely unnecessary for the same set of style features that >will be available in "CSS 98". If one parameterises the sylesheets correctly (read, *use* programming to determine the output device characteristics, and react to them), there is no need for choosing a subset. The programmatical control DSSSL provides is not a barrier to implementation. I once had a huge argument with a few people Jon knows well over adding the capability to query the enviornment to DSSSL, and was soundly toasted, but I still believe it to be the *only* way one can get truly interoperable stylesheets (and I note that some things did creep in afterward).
Received on Wednesday, 5 February 1997 09:00:29 UTC