- From: Brad Cox <bcox@virtualschool.edu>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:31:04 -0500
- To: "Richard Lander" <rlander@microsoft.com>, "Jack Lindsey" <tuquenukem@hotmail.com>, <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
At 12:05 PM -0800 1/24/04, Richard Lander wrote: >I'm guessing that the 90% browser reference is IE. I believe that you >are saying that IE handles XML+XSLT fine but not XML+CSS and that that >latter combination is the point of contention. Is that the case? I've not experienced problems using XML/CSS except for (numerous) IE "embrace and extend" incompatibilities on the CSS list. OTOH that's the last place I'd notice them. I test everything in MacOSX and Linux which are the only machines I own. Don't even have a machine running windoze. Windoze is for sheeple (which includes 90% of my students, unfortunately, so I can't ignore it altogether ;) I've been slowly using more and more CSS as I gain confidence I won't have to debug problems on a machine I don't even have access to at some student's home. >This is a surprise to me, as I know that I've done XML+CSS in IE6 >before. I believe that it worked in IE5 as well. In fact, I believe >that's what I tried first, XML+CSS that is. Now, I haven't tried this in >a few years, but I'm certain that it worked. > >Anyone else out there with the same experience? > >Thanks, > >rich > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org [mailto:xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org] >On Behalf Of Jack Lindsey >Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 7:05 AM >To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org >Subject: RE: Fwd: Re: RESEND: Extending xhtml? How? > > >Brad: >I think people were slow to respond because they were confused about >what >you are trying to achieve. > >If you want your students to access this material through standard >browsers, >there is no point in extending XHTML, unless you want to build a custom >browser to handle the extensions. > >If you want to present your custom data structure vocabulary to a >browser, >you should be able to use XML files, validated against an XSD schema, >and >directly styled for the Web by CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). >Unfortunately, >unlike Mozilla and Opera, the browser with 90% market share can't handle > >this. Therefore, the industrial-strength, cross-browser solution is to >include a reference to an XSLT stylesheet in your XML file, which >transforms >the XML into XHTML, and includes a reference to a CSS stylesheet, >allowing >you to keep cosmetic tweaks to presentation separate from content >structure. > >You mention an interactive question-and-answer feature. XHTML has basic > >form/input features which can be managed by client-side JavaScript or >server-side CGI/Perl scripts, and Curt mentioned Xforms. > >You also mentioned an affinity for Java. You could put <object> tags in > >your XHTML which would invoke and pass parameters to Java applets. > >So many options, so many technologies, so little time! > >HTH Jack > >>From: Brad Cox <bcox@virtualschool.edu> >>To: Curt Arnold <carnold@houston.rr.com> >>CC: xmlschema-dev@w3.org >>Subject: Fwd: Re: RESEND: Extending xhtml? How? >>Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:46:04 -0500 > >_________________________________________________________________ >Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* >http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin >.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca -- Brad J. Cox, PhD, 703 361 4751, http://virtualschool.edu http://virtualschool/ale Action Learning Environment http://virtualschool.edu/mybank Digital Rights Management System http://virtualschool.edu/jco Java Cryptographic Objects (JCO) http://virtualschool.edu/jwaa Java Web Application Architecture (JWAA) http://virtualschool.edu/java+ Java Preprocessor (Java+)
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