- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 01:05:25 +0200
- To: Eric Costello <eric@schwa.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Also sprach Eric Costello:
> Can anybody point me to some information on this working draft:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-layout.html
>
> I assume it never made it past the working draft stage, and I'm
> interested in why.
It's a good question. The answer will vary depending on whom you ask.
My answer is that the main implementors of CSS at the time (Microsoft
and Netscape) both wanted a positioning scheme which also worked with
JavaScript to create animations. The result was:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-positioning-970131
which was later incorporated into CSS2. HTML + JavaScript + CSS
Positioning was subsequently marketed as "Dynamic HTML" by the two.
-h&kon
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