Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
>
> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Dave J Woolley wrote:
>
> > > From: Henrik Nordstrom [SMTP:hno@hem.passagen.se]
> > >
> > >
> > > Not sure I fully agree. Properly used CSS acheives both goals: Gives the
> > > author good control of layout and makes the information more structured
> > >
> > CSS is clearly a rearguard action from W3C to try and
> > get HTML back on track. Unfortunately many people just
> > cut and paste "cool" constructs without regard to structure
> > (in fact very few people write properly structured MS Word
> > either - some even tab around the end of lines to force
> > newlines!)
>
> Whether a rearguard action or not, my impression was that Microsoft was a
> prime proponent of CSS 1 and 2. At least, until they decided to use the WWW
> paradigm for the Windows desktop and discovered that they would either have
> to "break" CSS or rewrite their applications.
Microsoft ended up patenting CSS, did they not?
D
Received on Wed Jun 09 1999 - 08:01:35 MDT
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