CSS2 and Core Styles

[Thomas Dowling]

Web4Lib--

There have been a couple of posts about style sheets recently, and I
wanted to call attention to a couple of CSS-related items on the W3C site.

First is that CSS level 2 has been issued as a recommendation.  In the
W3C's terminology, that's an official release of the specification.  As
with most W3C recommendations, the spec is way ahead of the browsers, but
Microsoft and Mozilla have both said they'll have at least partial support
in their next releases.

Along with this release, W3C has set up a CSS2 validation service and a
test suite of documenets to check a browser's CSS1 conformance.


Another project which has just surfaced on the W3C site is the Core Styles
project, which has created a set of *very* complete stylesheets.  Authors
can use the sheets as is, or mix and match modules from the different
sheets.  The effects are very interesting and underscore just how powerful
a good CSS implementation could be.


URLs of note:
  CSS2 Specification:  http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
  Changes from CSS1:   http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/changes.html
  CSS2 Validator:      http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
  CSS1 Test Suite:     http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/
  Core Styles Project: http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu