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At 12:01 AM 11/20/97, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: >The XSL/HTML4.0 looks an exciting place to start from (which I had >overlooked). It would seem to be the most appropriate way to think about >forms in XML (rather than developing them from scratch) > >Currently XSL (IMO) seems to derive almost entirely from a paper based >metaphor. Although 'screen' is mentioned (just) under SCROLL flowobjects, >these are little more than inanimate chunks of pixels. XML does not address >how to add buttons, etc. This *could* be done by ECMAScript, I suppose, but >it starts to look a bit kludgy. > >I am much more concerned with the potential interactive properties of XSL >than laying out text to the nearest micron. I am not disparaging that - >it's very important - but it seems to be the main philosophy behind XSL. >I'd like to see an interactive component built in. I think there is some real potential for an extension to XSL to allow something akin to Microsoft's dHTML (dynamic HTML). I am not sure that it should neccessarily be in XSL 1.0, and it could be really hairy if people are using XSL-grove interface to the XML and DOM interface to the output. I have not quite figured out how to factor in DOM into XSL without making things really confusing... But, I tend to agree, XSL allow people to get to Netscape 3.0/IE 3.0 level from XML, but not the full "4.0" range that people are (justifiably) going wild over. -derek Derek E. Denny-Brown II || ddb@c... "Reality is that which, || Seattle, WA USA when you stop believing in it, || WWW/SGML/HyTime/XML doesn't go away." -- P. K. Dick || Java/Perl/Scheme/C/C++ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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