- From: Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com <mtanalin@yandex.ru>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:13:08 +0400
- To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>,www-style@w3.org
18.01.2012, 02:57, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2012/1/17 Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>: >>> We only really care about the web, since the vast vast majority of >>> pages using our tech are web pages. Making choices that are bad for >>> the web but offer a minor benefit to non-web usage isn't a good >>> tradeoff. >> If we cared “only about the web” then we can throw a whole bunch of >> W3C initiatives out of the window. As it is, CSS is now caring about >> things that even some professional typesetting systems are unable to >> currently do. > > Personally, I agree - we *should* throw out a whole bunch of W3C initiatives. > > That's irrelevant to my point, though - CSS, specifically, is designed > around the needs of the web. (We do take on some responsibility for > print publishing via epub, Antenna House, Prince, etc., but we've made > decisions against them in favor of the web before.) By the way, Windows 8 is expected to be deeply integrated with HTML/CSS used for creating whole interface of applications.
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