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Hi Simon Simon said: The places where the cascade gets tricky tend to be places which reflect the politics of web design - who has control over final presentation? In my experience, graphic designers want control over all presentation and hate being overruled, so the W3C gave them !important rules. Users frequently hate dealing with what graphic designers give them, so they want to override the graphic designer's rules, and battles of !important rules ensue. In CSS1 the designer ("author") would win in conflicts of !important, while in CSS2 (wisely, in my view) the user would win. Didier replies: Very good point. May I add that in addition to the obvious political factor of who owns the document - the document's reader or the author? We should also include the notion of completeness, does the layout is part of the document? Does the layout express the non verbal nature of the document? Thus, add to the political and communication factors, the commercial dimension or in other words "who pays the bill". CSS can be a great tool to suppress ads but we are left with the problem of "who pays the bill" if users can remove all ads from a document. As a direct commercial impact of CSS, I see a raise of the cost of accessing information since, it would no longer be a third party who would pay in total or in parts a published document. Even printed magazines include ads to reduce their retail price. Hence, the magazine's content is partially paid by the reader and partially paid by advertisers. Suppress the capacity to advertise or reduce its potential visibility (i.e. the certainty that the ready will - at least- get it in its visual environment) and you subito facto raised the cost of access to information. In conclusion, I would say that the biggest impact cascading style sheets would have is economical. Also, restricting access to information by increasing the cost of access may also lead to other probably disastrous societal effects by restricting the access to knowledge. ------------------------------------------------------------- Didier PH Martin http://didier-martin.com OpenJade Project http://dsssl.netfolder.com Coming soon.... http://xml.netfolder.com Coming soon.... http://blog.didier-martin.com -------------------------------------------------------------
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