Many people are accustomed to style sheets in word-processing. W3C's style sheets offer extensive control over the presentation of Web pages. The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language is widely implemented. It is playing an important role in styling not just HTML, but also many kinds of XML documents: XHTML, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and SMIL (the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language), to name a few. It is also an important means of adapting pages to different devices, such as mobile phones or printers.
W3C is also developing the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL). XSL applies a “style sheet” to transform one XML-based document into another. XSL and CSS can be combined. XSL is described in the XML Activity Statement.
W3C has a page on CSS resources, including browsers, authoring tools and tutorials.
The CSS WG published the first draft of a new module, the CSSOM View Module, and issued a last call for the CSS Namespaces Module.
The test suites for CSS level2, Selectors and Paged Media, have grown considerably with contributions from member companies and individuals and are near to full coverage. Other test suites are also growing, making it possible that a few CSS specifications become Recommendations this year.
The CSS WG participates in the task force on Japanese layout, together with the I18N and XSL WGs.
The CSS WG will be rechartered in July 2008. The CSS validator has been updated recently and will be updated again to follow the latest published CSS modules. The WG started a blog last year to try and reach a wider audience and will also be publishing its issues lists publicly starting spring 2008.
| Group | Chair | Team Contact | Charter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (participants) | Daniel Glazman, Peter Linss | Bert Bos | Chartered until 1 July 2008 |
The CSS Working Group was called “CSS & FP Working Group” from 1997 to 2000.
This Activity Statement was prepared for the April 2008 W3C Advisory Committee Meeting (Members only) per section 5 of the W3C Process Document. Generated from group data.
Bert Bos, Style Activity LeadModified: $Date: 2008/03/26 13:58:59 $