- From: Christian Roth <roth@visualclick.de>
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 21:41:03 +0200
- To: "www-style Mailing List" <www-style@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: >> Then change my question to read "authors", plural. If functional >> flexibility is required, it needs to be designed in - by whomever is >> doing the designing. > >The person wanting to do the presentation might not have any control over >the author whatsoever. For example, a user writing a user stylesheet for a >site that he wants to rearrange. What is wrong with the idea of then piping the site for rearrangement through an XSLT processor (which is quite good at that) and then style the result using CSS2 (which is quite good at that)? I think extending CSS's capabilities (which should probably read, its specification) ad infinitum will be its death. If that extended functionality is desired, I think a better way would be to create a new language, borrow the good ideas from existing technologies, add the new ones to it and give it a new name. Then, implementors will know what they are expected to accomplish and will design their engines appropriately from the ground up. Otherwise, I think an XSLT->CSS workflow is a very capable tool chain that does most of what one might want - today. Regards, Christian.
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