On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 09:13 +0200, Marco van Hylckama Vlieg wrote: > What's worrying though are developments such as server-side CSS. While it > can do some nice things it really defeats the purpose of CSS.
Seeing as no-one else has said anything, I thought I'd complain on this point. Even if you lose _a_ benefit of CSS, to say that this [bandwidth savings] is "the purpose" of CSS is pretty... narrow minded. We've still got parsable, semantic data with considerably extended longevity because we didn't scatter it with presentational attributes. And our sites are still viewable in low bandwidth devices that don't bother with stylesheets (or, download lighter-weight mobile/handheld media type stylesheets). ATs don't choke on our unwieldy table-structured pages, either. The bandwidth advantage is only ancillary to CSS' core purpose -- namely, the _presentation_ of content in a certain way, without the markup-muck that <font> tags bring on. Kind Regards, Joshua Street base10solutions Website: http://www.base10solutions.com.au/ Phone: (02) 9898-0060 Fax: (02) 8572-6021 Mobile: 0425 808 469 Multimedia Development Agency ________________________________________________________________________ E-mails and any attachments sent from base10solutions are to be regarded as confidential. Please do not distribute or publish any of the contents of this e-mail without the sender’s consent. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to the e-mail, and then delete the message without making copies or using it in any way. Although base10solutions takes precautions to ensure that e-mail sent from our accounts are free of viruses, we encourage recipients to undertake their own virus scan on each e-mail before opening, as base10solutions accepts no responsibility for loss or damage caused by the contents of this e-mail. ________________________________________________________________________ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
