- From: Stephanos Piperoglou <spip@hol.gr>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 15:33:56 +0300 (EET DST)
- To: Douglas Rand <drand@sgi.com>
- cc: EMeyer <eam3@po.cwru.edu>, www-style@w3.org
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Douglas Rand wrote: > It really isn't that difficult, I do it in our browser. The code which > builds the rendering structure checks for displayFLOAT for inline or > block elements (my internal value for the property) and sticks the > content in a floater container. It's relatively simple and few lines of > code, et voila, I can put a paragraph off to the left (and I did for > my public demo at SGI's developer's forum). Every capable browser > already does such things for IMG and TABLE replaced elements. I really don't get it. NS and MS have the programmers to break down a (usually defective) document into a concise object tree, interpret snippets of code in several different languages, have elements perform triple sommersaults and morris dance all over your screen, yet when it comes to applying a simple, clear standard for document presentation, that makes oh so much sense to any programmer reading it, that practically tells you the code you need to write in itself, they choke. (next thing you know the W3C will be publishing C source with their specs - Whoops! They are! that's what libwww is!). And as if that wasn't enough, the release notes for Netscape Communicator 4.0 beta had several pages noting with concise detail, as *BUGS* in the beta, all the deviations of the implementation from the CSS spec. I was happy. At least the developers knew what they had to fix. But out comes the release version, this huge list has vanished into oblivion and it seems that Netscape is content with supporting only a small handful of what itself voted as a W3C Recomendation. It boggles the mind. And the Linux release has been shelved. No bother. I love Amaya. -- Stephanos "Pippis" Piperoglou - http://users.hol.gr/~spip/index.html "Life's not fair, but the root password helps" - Simon the BOFH
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