[HN Gopher] The Languages Which Almost Became CSS ___________________________________________________________________ The Languages Which Almost Became CSS Author : wyclif Score : 26 points Date : 2020-08-11 07:51 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (eager.io) (TXT) w3m dump (eager.io) | perardi wrote: | "As a final way of kindling your jealousy, DSSSL could treat | inherited values as variables, and do math on them..." | | As per the article, this would have been _a lot_ to implement | back then, but sigh, what a wonderful world that wold have been. | dmethvin wrote: | > If CSS was designed the way it is just to satisfy the | constraints of 1996, then maybe that gives us permission 20 years | later to do things a little differently. | | Yeah, just like we can choose which side of the road to drive on | or pick any arbitrary character encoding for an 8-bit byte. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-08-13 23:00 UTC)