- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
- Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 19:26:16 -0500
- To: Shelby Moore <shelby@coolpage.com>
- Cc: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>, www-style@w3.org
On Friday 2002-12-27 18:13 -0600, Shelby Moore wrote: > For me, I'd much rather having my work be transportable. What is the > benefit of having it not be transportable? Are you saying that you want the results of the transformation to be transportable over the network (e.g., as markup)? The benefit of preventing this from happening is that it enforces the separation of presentation from semantics, which is one of the main goals of CSS. There are many ways something such as an XForms select element [1] might be presented, as shown in the figure [1]. These presentations can be obtained by a transformation to other markup. However, doing that transformation before sending the document over the network would destroy the ability for the user to change which presentation is used. The user might want to change the presentation to be compatible with the look and feel of the user's operating environment or to be easier to use with the type of pointing or selecting device being used. Transporting the result of the transformation prevents this from happening. -David [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/slice8.html#ui-selectMany -- L. David Baron <URL: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/ >
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