- From: Ian Graham <igraham@smaug.java.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:47:57 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
I am curious to know if anyone has attempted to categorize common graphical/layout design idioms (rounded edge borders, multi-column text, centered images with floated, surrounding text, etc), and then attempted to reproduce these using CSS. Examples where this is not possible would serve as useful starting points for discussions of CSS extensions. On the other hand, cases where CSS (as currently defined) is sufficient would server as useful design examples (perhaps usable as informative references from the W3C web site), but would also help to demonstrate where CSS might usefully be extended (should the working CSS approach be awkward or inappropriate). In reading the behavioral extensions, user interface and paged media drafts I can pretty-well see this type of analysis going on behind the scenes. However, I don't see any evidence that graphical layout issues are being considered in the same way. -- Ian Graham ......................... Centre for Academic Technology i a n d o t g r a h a m a t u t o r o n t o d o t c a Information Commons Tel: 416-978-4548 University of Toronto Fax: 416-978-7705 ..................... http://www.utoronto.ca/ian/ ................. Ian
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