RE: The XSL-List Digest V2 #85

Subject: RE: The XSL-List Digest V2 #85
From: "Jelks Cabaniss" <jelks@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:23:07 -0400
John E. Simpson wrote:

> As for those who've never used either PDF or FOs, I still don't quite
> understand why they'd *want* to use FOs alone. To grok XSL FOs, they've got
> to grok XML itself. By the time they get that far, if they remain
> determined to create FO castles in the air, as it were, neither we here nor
> the W3C will be able to stop them. I don't want to expend any energy to
> stop them. There won't be enough of them to worry about.

The current state of the web seems to dispute that.  Witness "Presentational
HTML" and "DIV-SPAN HTML" -- both "FOs" (of sorts).  That these "documents"
aren't reusable or accessible hasn't stopped over 90% of "web designers" from
authoring them.  Over 90% is enough of them to worry about.

> neither we here nor the W3C will be able to stop them.

True.  Nor could anyone "stop them" once Marc A. decided <FONT> was cool.
Hakon's article is asking us to just re-think "<FONT> is cool" before we turn
down that dead end one more time.

> So I guess my main question is still, WHY would someone want to build
> documents in an FO-only way?

Because we still think the web is print.


/Jelks


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