- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 21:54:06 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
> Some, such as David Woolley suggested that CSS should not offer a macro **** function, like vertical-center, as it violates the document-oriented The objection to the *macro* part was that a professional designer must know what the macro expands to, so it doesn't solve the problem it is claiming to solve of designers not understanding the language. I also pointed out that things that depend on calculated heights tend to involve backtracking, or prevent incremental rendering, and someone else has pointed out that the one case which allows calculated widths requires reverse engineering IE to fully specify the behaviour, which is at least suggestive that a simple model doesn't work. The point you seem to be picking on here is that I think that there is very strong psychology amongst computer users towards wanting everything to do everything, but that is not a good design principle. The Netscape developer pointed out that they use a different formatting model for their user interface components (which presumably don't need to be incrementally rendered, either).
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