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HTML style sheets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (H&kon W Lie)
Thu Nov 3 06:59:42 1994
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 12:58:06 +0100
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From: "H&kon W Lie" <howcome@dxcern.cern.ch>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
Judging from the recent disussions in www-talk and at WWW'94 i
Chicago, I think the consenus on style sheets is growing. Several of
the people interested in these topics are not on the high-traffic
www-talk mailing list. I propose moving the discussion to www-html,
which is a smaller list with less activity. (To subscribe to www-talk,
send a message to www-html-request@info.cern.ch with "subscribe
www-html <your real name>" in the body.)
Also, I have created a style sheet page with references to relevant
information. The page is far from complete and contributions are
welcome. See:
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Style/
A brief summary of where we stand
Consensus items:
o Style sheets should provide a mapping between HTML elements and
presentation parameters
o Style sheets provide _hints_ that the browser may or may not take
into account when rendering documents
o Both the author and the user should be able to influence the final
presentation
o Style sheets should primarily be referenced from the HTML
documents, not embedded.
Items for discussion:
o Should style sheets be HTML-specific or SGML-generic?
o Can style sheets be blended?
o Should style sheets include logic?
o To what extent should the final presentation be predictable?
o What presentation parameters do we want to control?
Am I wrong? What's missing?
-h&kon
Hakon W Lie, WWW project, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/People/howcome/
