- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@technologist.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 23:53:46 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
Todd Fahrner wrote: > > If you, like me, have been confused by Microsoft's talk of "HTML/CSS flow > objects" as the output of their XSL interpreter, realize that these would > be nonsensical if they'd just support the CSS1 display types. As it is now, > their main need to invoke HTML as a display format is to patch the gaps in > their CSS implementation. Otherwise they could style a lot of XML directly > with CSS, with XSL serving as just the transformation language. Unless my memory is very foggy, there is no way to indicate in CSS1 that a particular element is meant to be a hyperlink, a table, a form input or other kinds of complex display type. People in XML-land aren't content to go without tables, forms and hyperlinks. So Microsoft's "HTML/CSS flow objects" are not at all nonsensical. Eventually CSS may be powerful enough to express these things itself or XSL may have its own, well-defined, non-HTML set of flow objects based on a combination of DSSSL and CSS. -- Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights will be 50 years old on December 10, 1998. These are your fundamental rights: http://www.udhr.org/history/default.htm
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