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, see the XML Activity Statement). XSL applies a “style sheet” to transform one XML-based document into another. XSL and CSS can be combined.
W3C has a page on CSS resources, including browsers, authoring tools and tutorials.
The working group published a Proposed Recommendation of CSS level2 revision1 in April.
Among the level-3 modules, Backgrounds and Borders became Candidate Recommendation, and a number of working drafts were published for the first time or updated: Snapshot 2010, Writing Modes, Text, Image Values, Flexible Box Layout, Fonts, Grid Layout, and Speech.
The CR for Multi-column Layout was updated (with editorial changes only).
After the PR for CSS level2, the focus for the first half of 2011 is on the CSS level3 features needed by EPUB, a standard for electronic books created by the IDPF, with which W3C has a liason. After multi-column layout (already in CR), the most important of those is vertical text, for which the third WD in in preparation.
| Group | Chair | Team Contact | Charter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (participants) | Daniel Glazman, Peter Linss | Bert Bos, Chris Lilley | Chartered until 30 August 2011 |
The WG was called “CSS & FP WG” from 1997 to 2000.
This Activity Statement was prepared for TPAC 2011 per section 5 of the W3C Process Document. Generated from group data.
Bert Bos, Style Activity LeadModified: $Date: 2011/09/29 22:45:23 $