- From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@tu-clausthal.de>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 07:08:21 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
David Woolley: > There are at least two ways in which DTP and HTML+CSS differ: > > - a typical DTP package has access to the whole document, but web > standards are designed for incremental rendering; > - a DTP package can be used in a closed loop environment, where the > designer sees the result, and can fine tune the fit of text to the > page, but the assumption under which CSS operates is that it only > hints at presentation - the browser may impose constraints for > technical reasons and the user may impose constraints for reasons > including accessibility - that means designs must be created open > loop. Nevertheless there is at least one product (Yes-Logic Prince) using X(HT)ML + CSS to generate print-outs, that also implements the CSS3 Columns Draft.
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