Re: [css] Project Idea: EnCSS

[Robin B. <ro...@kn...>]

On Thursday 09 August 2001 11:27, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> My problem is that Netscape 4.7 has some CSS bugs, so I hoped I could
> write them with CSS and then EnCSS them. Well, guess it would not work.

Such an effort was started a year or two ago, and produced a few results.=
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While not totally useless it is true that it is not the way forward as in=
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many ways it is better to wait for nn4 to die the atrociously horrible de=
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that it deserves ten times over. Also, it is a lot harder than it seems. =
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trivial parts are trivial (eg adding font tags) but the interesting parts=
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(positioning for instance) are very very hard to get right.

I agree with Bj=F6rn that something that worked the other way round would=
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very cool (I thought Tidy could do this partially).

On the CSS cleanup front there are also cool things to do with SVG. A lot=
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the SVG editors out there will produce stupid code where you have hundred=
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path elements in a row all of them with the exact same style attribute. W=
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gzip takes care of the size problem, it'd still be easier to hand edit if=
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to read (not to mention that it would produce a much lighter client-side =
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if those would be factored out into a CSS class.

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