RE: CSS 4?

Golden hammer anti-pattern... you even manage to suggest using non-standard
approaches...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On Behalf
> Of Ian Hickson
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 8:46 AM
> To: Robert Koberg
> Cc: 'Tantek Çelik'; www-style@w3.org
> 
> 
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Robert Koberg wrote:
> >
> > With CSS, how would you take this XML element:
> >    <link idref="a1234"/>
> > And style it into:
> >    <a style="internalLink" href="../folder/page.html">page</a>
> 
> That question is meaningless. You are adding semantics, not styling.
> 
> If the <link> element above is in a proprietary language, then it
> shouldn't be sent over the wire anyway, it should be transformed on the
> server side.
> 
> If the <link> element is in a fictional but well-known standard namespace,
> then it would already have the linking semantics, and so it would already
> match the :link and :visited pseudo-classes as appropriate.
> 
> In the extreme case, however, it would be possible to do something like:
> 
>    link { binding: url(internalLinks.xml#link); }
> 
> ...where internalLinks.xml is a BECSS binding that defines how elements
> should be turned into links. (BECSS is still in development, though. At
> the moment, you would use -moz-binding or behavior depending on whether
> you were targetting Mozilla or WinIE.)
> 
> 
> > Or this element:
> >    <submit servlet="login"/>
> > Into:
> >    <form id="loginForm" action="login" method="post">
> >    ...
> >    </form>
> 
> The same arguments and solutions apply here.
> 
> 
> > Or, using CSS, turn the things above (or anything) into a PDF?
> 
> There are several CSS-to-PDF systems available.
> 
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