- From: White Lynx <whitelynx@operamail.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:43:42 +0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
Matthew Raymond wrote: > It doesn't even sound like a feature I'd want in CSS Maybe you don't need it but we do and already use it. Especially when we need to render XML documents. CSS rendering engine allows you to turn XML markup into formatted user friendly page, you can embed images or other objects, but you can't make links work (appantly there are a lot of XML applications does not use XXXLink). For these purpose some CSS rendering engines introduced linking extensions that allow us to handle many different XML based markup languages through one linking mechanism. This way of controlling linking is superior over hardcoded XXXLinks as it provides more flexibility and allows authors to control via style sheet how link should be presented to user. Morover it allows users to address their needs better via user CSS. So we think it should be standardized. Regarding separation of content and style, let me note that separating them is good thing not because onece upon the time someone said or wrote in specs that separating is GOOD and mixing is EVIL, but rather because style sheets provide more flexible control over rendering comparing to the case when formatting oriented instructions are hardcoded in document. This is exactly what we need - more flexinble control over linking that would allow us to render wide range of XML documents with CSS and would make XML + CSS documents more selfcontained, more accessible and more interoperable. -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 8 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze
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