Re: lynx-dev what are cascading style sheets?

[Philip Webb]

990206 Jacob Poon wrote: 
> 990205 Matt Ackeret wrote:
>> Could someone give a brief description of what cascading style sheets are?
>> If implementing CSS would mean I wouldn't have to page through a few pages
>> of links in Lynx that show up as a column on the left in a GUI browser, 
>> then by all means, someone implement them.
> Recently US Patent Office granted Microsoft a patent
> for 'The use of style sheets in an electronic publishing system'.
> That means if we are going to add CSS on Lynx,
> we may find Redmond lawyers knocking our doors.  See
>  http://www.patents.ibm.com/patlist?icnt=US&patent_number=5860073

their patent appears to cover only a special use of style sheets;
anyway, you can patent only a device or procedure (eg code), not a concept:
that's how they were originally able to steal windows from Apple.

to answer Matt: goto  www.w3.org/TR/REC-css2 .

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