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 two new CRs: CSS Mobile Profile and CSS Marquee Module. The Media Queries reached LC.
The CSS level 2 test suite is steadily growing to thousands of tests. But the group suffers from a shortage of test reviewers.
The CSS WG, with the I18N and XSL WGs, participates in the Japanese layout task force
Backgrounds and Borders, Paged Media, Selectors, Namespaces, and the first revision of CSS2 are all very stable. They are likely to progress to CR or Rec within a year, depending on the availability of test suites.
| Group | Chair | Team Contact | Charter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (participants) | Daniel Glazman, Peter Linss | Chris Lilley, Bert Bos | Chartered until 30 November 2010 |
The WG was called “CSS & FP WG” from 1997 to 2000.
This Activity Statement was prepared for the October 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: 2009/02/24 16:00:49 $