amen & amen! thanks, achim.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Achim Schneider <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barsoap@web.de">barsoap@web.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Conal Elliott <<a href="mailto:conal@conal.net">conal@conal.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> [Spin-off from the haskell-cafe discussion on functional/denotational<br>
> GUI toolkits]<br>
><br>
> I've been wondering for a while now what a well-designed alternative<br>
> to CSS could be, where well-designed would mean consistent,<br>
> composable, orthogonal, functional, based on an elegantly compelling<br>
> semantic model (denotational).<br>
><br>
</div></div>I think a very important thing to keep in mind while investigating<br>
web-technologies for pointers is that Haskell already comes with XML<br>
and XSLT (in the disguise of ADT's and functions), and that CSS is<br>
often abused for operations that are in the domain of XSLT.<br>
<br>
I don't believe that it's possible to draw a clear destinction between<br>
"concerns the programmer" and "concerns the designer". In fact, I get<br>
offended by the notion that I'm inherently incapable of distinguishing<br>
readable from unreadable text, and think that the notion of designers<br>
being unable to do anything but assembling a colourful collage of the<br>
data they're given is more of a self-fulfilling prophecy than a truth.<br>
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