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 Rationale for creation of ciwas 

AFAICT, Arnoud Engelfriet, the proponent for the establishment of ciwa-stylesheets, is also the author of this rationale.

	RATIONALE: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets

	Web style sheets have been around for a number of years, but their
	power and importance went largely unnoticed since few implementations
	existed. Web authors, anxious to add creativity to their pages by
	influencing the presentation, began to use Netscape's proprietary
	extensions rather than the more powerful style sheets. This was quite
	natural, since Netscape's proprietary extensions could be seen by a
	significant portion of Web users, while few would see style sheet
	enhancements.

	Today, more and more browsers are implementing style sheets, opening
	authors' eyes to unique features that allow influence over
	presentation while preserving platform independence. The advantages of
	style sheets became apparent, as did the disadvantages of continually
	creating more HTML tags for presentation effects.

	Currently, discussion concerning the use of style sheets takes
	place mostly in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html. As style sheets
	are not actually a part of HTML, both topics would be better served
	with a separate newsgroup. At this time, the most popular stylesheet
	language is CSS1 (Cascading Style Sheets, level 1), but it is expected
	that other languages will also be supported in the future.

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