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Originally Posted by calvin-c
You've got the nutshell, including the *long* time it takes to develop adequate styles (or objects).
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Given the relative speed of society and technology, it will take less time, I think -- certainly not centuries. A decade or two, is my guess.
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Originally Posted by calvin-c
This would be, I think, like writing HTML with CSS, but the CSS only contains a couple of the most common styles-everything else is coded inline.
I hadn't actually thought about having industry-wide consistency. Programming is, pretty much, company-specific so I just hadn't thought in those terms. I suspect you're right-centuries of experience will be needed for that.
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Company-specific would be fine; you'd see several basic styles develop (
a la Chicago Manual of Style, etc.)
As long as they're not designed to work around the flaws of currently dominant software/firmware, they would be welcome.
On another topic: could you flesh out your ideas about style? From my reading of your words, it looks to me that 'objects' in your analogy are closer to 'structure'. ie: a clear element naming-scheme in the XHTML that is then manipulated by CSS.
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