- From: Jim Dabell <jim-www-style@jimdabell.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 16:43:57 +0000
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Monday 06 January 2003 4:22 pm, Herr Christian Wolfgang Hujer wrote: > Presentation is presenting content to an intelligent user, which usually > is a human end user only, but which also might be cats, dogs, monkeys, > aliens etc.. I think a slightly better way of putting it is: Presentation is the buffer between document encoding and document consumption. This covers: HTML+CSS rendered graphically in a browser window. HTML rendered aurally for later listening. HTML rendered as an in-memory tree structure for search engine crawlers. XML served, with XSLT applied to present XHTML to browsers. This seems to be a quite diverse range of situations, all of which can be considered to be "stylistic" (except, perhaps, the SE example). Behaviour is a special case because it involves interaction by the user, and can conceivably alter the original encoding. I consider semantics to be a property of the document encoding. Therefore, I don't consider behaviour to be able to change semantics unless it changes the original encoding of the document (which rules out both CSS and XBL, I believe). Is this discussion useful, or should we all collectively knock this thread on the head? -- Jim Dabell
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