Subject: Re: Venting From: uche.ogbuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 11:32:24 -0700 |
> So what one is left with is radical overengineering, ie., having a whole > raft of CSS spec to reinvent the wheel of all your basic FOs... I still > don't see this as an easy option. The reality is that many people have learned CSS, there are many tools that work with CSS, and in all, the shortest path from the current HTML+CSS chaos to proper structure/style separation is though XML+CSS. XTL is a very separate concern. FOs are a good eventual aim, but they will be longer in development, and IMO, should be a separate consideration. I also happen to think that it is important not to rush the development of FOs, and counting them as separate, with a longer release horizon will be good for all. In the meantime, XTL is almost ready to go, and doesn't have the same obstacles to development, being most likely a server-side technology. > I have played with XML+CSS in IE5, and while it's useful with maybe IE5 > behaviours for producing "widgets" (I produced a collapsable navigation > menu, from XML data), I'm not overly enamoured at the prospect of complex > rendering using this approach. I appreciate others may differ, but I'm sure > that print designers wont like being told XML+CSS is the solution they > should adopt. Yes, but as Mr. Martin already pointed out to you, DSSSL fills that niche quite handily. -- Uche Ogbuji FourThought LLC, IT Consultants uche.ogbuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (970)481-0805 Software engineering, project management, Intranets and Extranets http://FourThought.com http://OpenTechnology.org XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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