Re: gtkhtml2 vs. gtkhtml1

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik sun com>]

On 17 Sep 2002, Radek [ISO-8859-1] Doulík wrote:

> On Út, 2002-09-17 at 10:49, Sander Vesik wrote:
> > On 17 Sep 2002, Radek [ISO-8859-1] Doulík wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Út, 2002-09-17 at 03:51, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> > > > tis 2002-09-17 klockan 08.19 skrev Biswapesh Chattopadhyay:
> > > > 
> > > > > 2) To render help pages and show HTML mail, we do not need:
> > > > > 	a) Full HTML 4.0.1
> > > > > 	b) Full CSS1/2 support
> > > > > 	c) Full DOM1/2 support
> > > > > 	d) Full JS1.5 support
> > > > 
> > > > We *do* want both CSS and DOM for the help stuff (at least). 
> > > 
> > > Why do we need these for the help stuff?
> > > 
> > 
> > Fpr DOM part you will have to talk to billh, but we definately want css2
> > for help for layout and formating.
> 
> Yeah, my question was meant more like, do we really need those or
> couldn't we somewhat overcome it? What are the reasons to use CSS? I
> don't think help layout is so complicated that it must use css2 for

Complicated is a relative thing - css lets you specify how a table inside
<div class="revhistory"> should look different from <div class="table">
and you effectively can't do this without css.

> layout and formating. At least from what I've seen, the GNOME help pages
> have pretty simple layout and formating.
> 

CSS2 brings in several useful things including being able to apply
formting to an element based on what element preceeds it as well as the
first-child psedu-class (and more). 

> Bill, why do we need DOM?
> 
> Radek
> 
> PS: Sorry for my basic question, but I would like to make it clear for
> myself.
> 

	Sander

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