On 7 Jun 2004 at 6:14, dhbailey wrote: > But if it's possible in web-sites with html programming, it can't be > that difficult to implement.
I agreed with everything you wrote up to this point. You can't compare implementation across different domains. HTML was designed from the very beginning to keep data separate from layout. Then a bunch of things were added to HTML that control appearance, and it became obvious that this was not consistent with the underlying design of HTML, so Cascading Style Sheets were conceptualized and implemented to get this. And HTML styles use vaguely object-oriented terminology, in that you control the style of individual tags by giving them class names, so they inherit the characteristics of the class you designated them to be (and you can use multiple classes, in fact). But it works entirely because of the basic structure of HTML in that HTML itself (mostly) doesn't indicate presentation. I think that the stylesheet concept is the wrong one, though. What you're really writing about is cascading templates, like MS Word. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
