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Re:Languages Which Almost Became CSS by sdegutis on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @02:02PM (#11995984)
> And DSSSL would've been able to handle much or maybe even all of what's currently handled by Javascript.

I severely doubt that. JavaScript can inspect attributes of anything on the entire page, run remote HTTP queries and inspect their attributes, and make styling decisions based on those, on the fly, and in response to user GUI events.

Granted, I'd probably be really okay with these features no longer existing. Just saying, I don't think any DSSSL could have taken them on.

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Re:Languages Which Almost Became CSS by smitherfield on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @02:20PM (#11996149)
I should've been more clear — DSSSL might've been able, possibly in conjunction with later extensions (just as XJAX was not originally part of Javascript), to provide a similar end-user experience in many cases as CSS+Javascript currently does, albeit with very different semantics for the developer.

Not sure it would be better (it probably erred on the side of too much mixing of program logic and styling rather than too little), but it would certainly be different.

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