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Subject:Re: HTML & CSS From:Sven-Ola Tuecke <sven-ola -at- BERLIN -dot- CONTRIB -dot- NET> Date:Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:51:16 GMT
mbaker -at- omnimark -dot- com (Mark Baker) wrote:
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>(c) Store your pages in XML or SGML and write a script to detect the user's
>browser and output the appropriate CSS/HTML for each browser. This way
>authors don't have to worry about browser differences and when a new browser
>is released you only have to update your script to support the new browser,
>not edit any of your data. What a dream come true.
Maybe your dream turns out to be a nightmare:
If you read the IE5.0 specs, you detect a new
style sheet language, the development team
focuses on: XSL. XSL is not CSS or DSSSL. XSL
is a fine idea, but it may be a new and strange
concept for layout oriented DTPers...
- Sorry for my english, the babelfish is out
of order today... =:-((
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