Subject: RE: DSSSL future From: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:38:38 -0500 |
Hi John <YourComment> My own view is that the ultimate vision of allowing client-selection of which stylesheet(s) to apply to a given xml/sgml datastream is best by far. The industry seems to be going in this direction based on the work being done with HTML 4.0 and XSL. A server side transform only seems to me to be useful for down-version browsers, i.e., it is a temporary fix to the problem of people using browsers that are not enabled for style transformations. I believe that there is so much processing power on the requestor side that it is practically uneconomic to do transformations on the server. I say, let the clients do as much work as they can. </YourComment> <Reply> Point a) client station have plenty of power to do local processing. Yes, indeed some workstations are even more powerful than some servers. point b) a temporary fix is to have processing done on server side because of the legacy. According to overall market browser renewal, it takes about two years to attain 90% penetration for the new release (in a specific market like IE or Mozilla, not the overall market). So the acceptance is a lot slower than we think. I guess we have no choice than provide a server side solution for a least the next two years. But as soon as we have the right numbers, we will be able to move on. point c) clients can choose their style. This is not a trend taken by browser manufacturers. Actually, in the case of XSL, the only style sheet used is the one referred by the processing instruction. Current specs says nothing about a choice mechanism so by default browsers provide none, this is why I started a thread on this topic. To explore ways to give back choice to users and way for publishers to provide such choice. </Reply> thanks for your comment Regards Didier PH Martin mailto:martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.netfolder.com DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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