Today´s style sheet standards: the great vision blinded

Author

Marden, Philip M., Jr. ; Munson, Ethan V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Wisconsin Univ., Milwaukee, WI, USA

Volume

32

Issue

11

fYear

1999

fDate

11/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

123

Lastpage

125

Abstract

Our research into style sheet systems and languages (Proteus and PSL) shows that there are alternatives to CSS and XSL that more closely meet the necessary criteria. The PSL style language has a syntax especially designed for the style sheet task and has traditional computational features including mathematical expressions and conditionals. In contrast to XSL, PSL does not emphasize transformations, and it uses constraints, rather than flow, to specify layout. Furthermore, there are other style languages, such as the Thot structured document toolkit´s P language and the more recent Constraint CSS. While we realize that substantial resources have been invested in CSS and XSL, we nevertheless urge the Web community to more fully explore alternate approaches to style sheets

Keywords

authoring systems; hypermedia markup languages; information resources; software standards; CSS; Constraint CSS; P language; PSL; Proteus; Thot structured document toolkit; Web community; XSL; conditionals; constraints; mathematical expressions; style sheet languages; style sheet standards; style sheet systems; syntax; Cascading style sheets; Cellular phones; Computer vision; Educational institutions; HTML; Impedance; Personal communication networks; Standards development; Web pages; XML;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.803645

Filename

803645