- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:14:43 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Pascal Germroth wrote: > Rikkert Koppes wrote: >> A way to do this is applying a xsl stylesheet to the table (either via >> script or an included stylesheet) and transforming the thing to an svg >> piechart. >> >> I have in fact done this before with a transformation to a standard >> graph. By applying this transformation via scripting, you could still >> display the data as a table for browsers that do not support xsl >> transformations and svg rendering. > > Why would you use XSL-T, if scripting is available? Especially doing The general reason for avoiding scripting is that it is too powerful, which means that, it is much easier to make subtle mistakes, and once a browser enables it, the chances of being exploited greatly increase. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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