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Originally Posted by frabjous
What? You detest CSS? But you think (X)HTML is the right base format for ebooks? That's a very odd position to hold.
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CSS is not XHTML. Please don't conflate them...it's not even using XML markup, which is puzzling as heck given it's used to modify XML-based...
Anyway, Non-compliance is non-compliance. It's a terribad standard when it's that hard to implement given the amount of effort put into browsers!
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I like CSS. I think it's one of the things XHTML does right. I guess I'm not sure what the difference is between layout and style, and even if there is one, surely the important thing is the contrast between them on the one hand, and content on the other.
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Well, as you can evidently see by browser non-compliance, the lack of usable WYSIWIG web-building tools and so on, surely your contention falls flat...
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WYSIWYG editors are fine for writing letters to Grandma. But they really have no purpose for anything created for a wider audience, primarily because they make it impossible to separate form and content, and create modifiable consistency.
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Oh sure, tell the people out there using Word and Excel they're doing it wrong. Please record it so I can laugh at their reactions to you, for that matter.
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should be that simple - there were some quite usable WYSIWYG editors which were developing nicely before CSS2 came along and basically made them more trouble than they were worth because of how badly CSS was designed. In a day and age when the web is this important to the lives of so many people, that websites are so hard for the layman to create is a massive, massive outrage!