Re: W3C-transformation language petition

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:27 AM 3/8/99 -0500, Chris Maden wrote:
>[Daniel Glazman]
>> Document [1] lists a lot of user requests for CSS extensions. That
>> document is an evidence that CSS does not go too far and that users
>> are hardly waiting for more.
>
>Well, people definitely want to do more, and CSS was the only game in
>town.  That doesn't necessarily mean that CSS should let them do more.
>
>It's an age-old problem in communications, as any tech support rep
>knows; a user will say, "I want to do X," when they mean, "I want to
>do Y and I think that X is the way to do it."  I'm not saying CSS
>shouldn't grow, only that requests for it to do so are not evidence
>that those making the requests really want it to, especially if the
>price is that it becomes less usable for simple tasks.

This is self-serving (for XSL) at best.  It really sounds like you're
calling for a managed and deliberate end to the growth of CSS, cutting off
its air supply for future development.  Funny how that would tend to divert
more resources and people in need of advanced functionality to XSL.

The final sentence seems like a softener - "I'm not saying that CSS
shouldn't grow" - but think about it - that really does seem to be what the
rest of this message is saying, no easy way around it.

Simon St.Laurent
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