Subject: Re: removing HTML flow objects? From: David Megginson <ak117@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 15:58:30 -0400 |
Frank Boumphrey writes: > >>I don't think that the first point was as much of a boon as one might > >>think: the HTML flow object set supported was nearly useless for > >>pre-CSS browsers (such as the still-widely-deployed Netscape 3.0) > >>since it didn't include most basic HTML element types like <UL>. > > The figures that I have heard is that by the end of this year less > than 10% of users will have a 3 or worse browser. With the next > version of Opera supporting CSS are be really going to allow a > small percentage of users to eviscerate what was once a promising > new development? I find that number surprisingly low (IS departments in big companies are conservative about upgrades) but even if the number turns out to be true, it doesn't invalidate my original point: the HTML flow objects in the current XSL draft do not generate good, general-purpose HTML. Remember that HTML is supposed to scale up or down to different devices and to different media (such as a voice reader for the visually-impaired or for an automobile driver on the highway). A document full of <span> and <div> elements with CSS style attributes will provide very little useful information for such processes. Again, it would make much more sense to create an XSL-like transformation language to produce _any_ structured output (XML, HTML, or SGML) rather than a tiny and arbitrary subset of HTML 4.0. This task is, however, probably outside of the XSL WG's mandate. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.megginson.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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