- From: Kelly <lightsolphoenix@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:53:11 -0400
- To: James Elmore <James.Elmore@cox.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Tuesday, July 03, 2007 1:26 am James Elmore wrote: > WHAT IS DISPLAYED: HTML / XHTML documents may contain text, images, media, > and active objects (such as applets and JavaScript). I believe that the > ability to display data (lists, tables, 3-D data sets, graphs of data, > etc.) is missing from this group. CSS needs tools to help format and > display sets of data. Lists and tables are a start, but are simply too > little to provide display and formatting of data sets. Perhaps data can be > automatically formatted into graphs or charts. (I have seen this trick done > with scripts and SVG, but some simple formatting controls in CSS would be > better.) 3-D data might have a 2-D slice displayed with controls to move > the view through the data set, by stepping, rotating in different > directions, etc. Graphs are probably best done as an extension library to HTML/XHTML, since IMO they have the same use case conditions as MathML (useless to most people, but very useful to the group that requires them). -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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