Member Submission - Note

Date: Feb. 3, 1998
Link: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-spice-19980123.html
Source Author or Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company

Excerpted from "Abstract": "CSS is proving to be an easy-to-learn, effective approach for styling HTML pages. This NOTE shows how, with a few simple extensions, ECMAScript becomes a powerful and easy-to-learn way to style XML pages using extensible CSS rules together with scripted flow objects. The approach doesn't rely on prior knowledge of the meaning of style properties, or on predefined flow-objects."

"To encourage interoperability, URLs are used to name libraries that support a given set of flow objects and style properties. Each library can be implemented in different ways according to the needs of each platform. Flow objects can be implemented in Java, ActiveX or even ECMAScript. CSS flow objects are supported via a standard library."

"Spice leverages ongoing W3C work on CSS and DOM for the syntax of style rules, the properties of standard flow objects and the means for accessing the document markup."