Subject: Formatting Objects considered harmful From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:31:03 +0200 (MET DST) |
I've put some thoughts about Formatting Objects on the Web into writing [1]. Here's the abstract: The W3C Working Group on XSL is currently producing two specifications: a transformation language (called "XTL" in this document) and a set of formatting objects written in XML (called "XFO" in this document). The idea is for XTL to transform XML data and documents into set of formatting objects which subsequently can be rendered. On the ladder of abstraction from presentation to semantics, XFO is at the level of presentational HTML elements. A Web of XFO documents can be compared to a Web of HTML documents with only FONT and BR tags. Although not intended to be used on the Web, it's unlikely that it can be prevented. XFO is therefore a threat to accessibility, device-independence and the dream of a semantic Web. The note ends with some suggestions on how to solve the problem. [1] http://www.operasoftware.com/people/howcome/1999/foch.html -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie http://www.operasoftware.com/people/howcome howcome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx simply a better browser XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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