amen & amen! thanks, achim. On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Achim Schneider <bars...@web.de> wrote:
> Conal Elliott <co...@conal.net> wrote: > > > [Spin-off from the haskell-cafe discussion on functional/denotational > > GUI toolkits] > > > > I've been wondering for a while now what a well-designed alternative > > to CSS could be, where well-designed would mean consistent, > > composable, orthogonal, functional, based on an elegantly compelling > > semantic model (denotational). > > > I think a very important thing to keep in mind while investigating > web-technologies for pointers is that Haskell already comes with XML > and XSLT (in the disguise of ADT's and functions), and that CSS is > often abused for operations that are in the domain of XSLT. > > I don't believe that it's possible to draw a clear destinction between > "concerns the programmer" and "concerns the designer". In fact, I get > offended by the notion that I'm inherently incapable of distinguishing > readable from unreadable text, and think that the notion of designers > being unable to do anything but assembling a colourful collage of the > data they're given is more of a self-fulfilling prophecy than a truth. > > -- > (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers > for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, > performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited. > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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