Re: What shall we do with the W3C DOM?
by Christopher Higgs <chiggs(at)unimelb.edu.au>
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Steve Mount <steve(at)saltyrain.com>,
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At 07:53 PM 7/11/2002 -0500, Steve Mount wrote:
>The real problem, as I see it, with using XML and XSLT to produce documents
>for end users is the complexity involved.
I never said it would be easy :-)
>Their customers may still be using version 4 broswers, or lower.
>I sill have a few IE 3 and NN 2 users hit my sites every so often, not to
>mention Lynx. By using HTML, I know the latest browsers can see my content,
>and so can the older ones.
But that's what I'm saying! Let's say your XSLT transforms your page into
two versions - "old HTML" and "CSS-enhanced".
Or simply add a different CSS for NN vs IE viewers. Yes, SSI can do this
now, but only at a basic level.
Chris Higgs
Manager, New Learning Technology
ILFR, University of Melbourne
http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au/
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