Bravo W3C!

CobraBoy (tbyars@earthlink.net)
Tue, 12 May 1998 13:30:48 -0700


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(And I might add, not one mention of Microsoft!!!)

CSS2 Specification Released as W3C
Recommendation

Tue May 12 10:00:24 PDT 1998

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday released the CSS2
(Cascading Style Sheets, level 2) specification as a W3C Recommendation,
indicating that it is stable, contributes to Web interoperability and has been
reviewed by the W3C Membership.

The CSS2 specification, which builds upon W3C's earlier Recommendation
for CSS1, adds many new features while remaining fully backwards
compatible. The specification was written and developed by the W3C
Cascading Style Sheets and Formatting Properties (CSS&FP) Working
Group.

Building upon the CSS1 design capabilities, CSS2 adds new positioning
properties to control layout as well as improved typographic control,
including dynamically downloadable fonts.

"CSS2 will take Web design to new places," said Hakon Lie, W3C Style
Sheets Activity Leader. "CSS1 did a fine job of replicating HTML extensions
through style sheets. CSS2 does more than just capture existing practice: it
greatly expands the Web designer's palette."

Additional CSS2 features allow authors to express rich styles that are compact
and text-based; pages that use CSS2 are smaller and load much faster than
comparable image-based pages, according to W3C.

The CSS2 specification, which is moving toward being able to display
multilingual documents, also adds features specifically targeted at displaying
XML documents.

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CSS2 Specification Released as W3C

Recommendation

Tue May 12 10:00:24 PDT 1998

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday released the CSS2

(Cascading Style Sheets, level 2) specification as a W3C Recommendation,

indicating that it is stable, contributes to Web interoperability and has been

reviewed by the W3C Membership.

The CSS2 specification, which builds upon W3C's earlier Recommendation

for CSS1, adds many new features while remaining fully backwards

compatible. The specification was written and developed by the W3C

Cascading Style Sheets and Formatting Properties (CSS&FP) Working

Group.

Building upon the CSS1 design capabilities, CSS2 adds new positioning

properties to control layout as well as improved typographic control,

including <bold><italic>dynamically downloadable fonts</italic></bold>.

"CSS2 will take Web design to new places," said Hakon Lie, W3C Style

Sheets Activity Leader. "CSS1 did a fine job of replicating HTML extensions

through style sheets. CSS2 does more than just capture existing practice: it

greatly expands the Web designer's palette."

Additional CSS2 features allow authors to express <bold><italic>rich styles</italic></bold> that are compact

and text-based; pages that use <bold><italic>CSS2 are smaller and load much faster than

comparable image-based pages</italic></bold>, according to W3C.

The CSS2 specification, which is moving toward being able to display

multilingual documents, also adds features specifically targeted at displaying

XML documents. </color>

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has built that humanity doesn't understand."

...Eric Schmidt, Sun Microsystems

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