Subject: Re: Venting From: Guy_Murphy@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:16:28 +0000 |
Hi. I'm not that interested in marginalia, and you obviously aren't but an awful lot of designers out there are very concerned with it, and yes the W3C is charged with addressing their needs as much as yours or mine. Now there might well be alternate terminology and methodlogy that could be used to express marginalia that would better fit a Web design paradigm, but why should the print designer be forced to fit into our shoes. It also warrant keeping in mind that when one considers the amount of books and magazine published, print design represents a very large market whos needs should not be ignored. I'm not seeking the moral highground here, as my arguements where nigh on the same as yours when I first considered XSL, and it was only after listening to the expressed needs of designers in other fields that I appreciated that XSL is intended to address far more than CSS. XML is not just a browser technology, and neither is XSL. Cheers Guy. xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 02/12/99 03:00:00 AM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: (bcc: Guy Murphy/UK/MAID) Subject: Re: Venting At 05:09 PM 2/11/99 -0500, you wrote: [SNIP] But come on, really. Is it the job of the W3C to recreate every creative formatting that was ever used in a book, when both margin notes and footnotes are really just plain old linked content? Pagination, fine. But marginalia? Gack. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer / Building XML Applications (April) Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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