Re: CSS 3 Roadmap

On Friday 21 April 2006 17:56, Benton, Kevin wrote:

> Bert et. al. - thanks for the update.  I do understand about having
> limited resources.  I'd like to stop writing my literature in Docbook
> and start writing it in XHTML/CSS, but that's difficult to do if the
> CSS supporting it doesn't give me the functionality I need (page
> headers/footers per section, etc.).  Paged Media is a key part of
> that. I'm hoping to work with Firefox developers to get it
> implemented soon.

That would be good, indeed. The Paged Media module is high on our list 
of priorities, because the XHTML Print profile[1] is waiting for it. We 
don't have a test suite yet, but we believe we have one implementation 
already[3]. The sooner we get a second one, the sooner the Paged Media 
module will be a Recommendation.

Håkon and I already used HTML+CSS and the properties for Paged Media 
when making camera-ready copy for our book[2]. It's not a complete 
replacement for TeX yet, but it already creates acceptable books.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-xhtml-print-20060131
[2] http://www.w3.org/Style/LieBos3e
[3] http://www.princexml.com/



Bert
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