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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html lang="en">
<!-- $Id: about.src,v 1.6 1997-09-23 14:07:13 ian Exp $ -->
<HEAD>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<TITLE>About the CSS2 Specification</TITLE>
<LINK rel="next" href="intro.html">
<LINK rel="previous" href="cover.html">
<LINK rel="STYLESHEET" href="style/default.css" type="text/css">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1 align="center">About the CSS2 Specification</H1>

<P>This document has been written with two types of readers in mind:
CSS authors and CSS implementors. We hope the specification will
provide authors with the tools they need to write efficient,
attractive, and accessible documents, without overexposing them to
CSS's implementation details. Implementors, however, should find all
they need to build user agents that interpret CSS correctly.

<P>The specification has been written with two modes of presentation
in mind: electronic and printed. Although the two presentations will
no doubt be similar, readers will find some differences. For example,
links will not work in the printed version (obviously), and page
numbers will not appear in the electronic version. In case of a
discrepancy, the electronic version is considered the authoritative
version of the document.

<h2>How to read the specification</h2>

<p>The specification may be approached in several ways:

<ul>
<li><P><strong>Read from beginning to end.</strong> The specification
begins with a general presentation of CSS and becomes more and more
technical and specific towards the end. This is reflected in the
specification's main table of contents, which presents topical
information, and the indexes, which present lower level information in
alphabetical order.</P>

<li><strong>Quick access to information.</strong> In order to get
information about syntax and semantics as quickly as possible, the
electronic version of the specification includes the following
features:

<ol>
<li>Every reference to an property or value is linked to
its definition in the specification.

<li>Every page will include links to the table of contents and to the
index, so readers of the electronic version will never be more than
two links away from finding the definition of a property or value.

</ol>
</ul>


<h2>How the specification is organized</h2>
This specification includes the following sections:

<dl>
<dt><Strong>Section 3: An introduction CSS2</strong>
<dd>The introduction begins with a brief tutorial in CSS2. The
following section discusses design principles behind CSS2. Finally, we
provide a list of suggested practice for style sheet authors.
</dd>

<dt><strong>Sections 4 - 17: CSS2 reference manual.</strong>
<dd>The bulk of the reference manual consists of the CSS language
reference, which describes and defines all CSS properties.


<dd>The appendix contains
information about <a href="sample.html">a sample style sheet for HTML
	    2.0</a>, <a href="changes.html">changes from CSS1
</a>, <a href="appendix/notes.html">implementation and performance
</a>, <a href="grammar.html">the grammar of CSS2</a>, and a list of
		      normative and informative references.
</dd>

<dt><strong>Section 23: General index.</strong>

<dd>The <a href="index.html">general index</a> contains links to key
	  concepts, property and value definitions, and other useful
	  information.
</dd>

</dl>

<H2>Acknowledgments</H2>

<P>During the short life of HTML, there have been several style sheet
proposals (available at the <a href="http://www.w3.org/">W3C Web
site</a>) to which this proposal is indebted. Especially the proposals
from Robert Raisch, Joe English and Pei Wei were influential.

<P> A number of people have contributed to the development of CSS2. We
would especially like to thank: Terry Allen, Murray Altheim, Glenn
Adams, Walter Bender, Tim Berners-Lee, Yves Bertot, Scott Bigham,
Steve Byrne, Robert Cailliau, James Clark, Daniel Connolly, Donna
Converse, Adam Costello, Todd Fahrner, Todd Freter, Roy Fielding, Neil
Galarneau, Wayne Gramlich, Phill Hallam-Baker, Philipp Hoschka, Kevin
Hughes, Scott Isaacs, Tony Jebson, William Johnston, Gilles Kahn,
Philippe Kaplan, Phil Karlton, Evan Kirshenbaum, Yves Lafon, Murray
Maloney, Lou Montulli, Colas Nahaboo, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, David
Perrell, William Perry, Scott Preece, Paul Prescod, Liam Quin, Vincent
Quint, Jenny Raggett, Thomas Reardon, C&eacute;cile Roisin, Michael
Seaton, David Seibert, David Siegel, David Singer, Benjamin Sittler,
Jon Smirl, Charles Peyton Taylor, Ir&egrave;ne Vatton, Daniel
Veillard, Mandira Virmani, Greg Watkins, Mike Wexler, Lydja Williams,
Brian Wilson, Chris Wilson, Lauren Wood and Stephen Zilles.

<p>Besides the authors, the following people have contributed in
various ways to the sections pertaining to fonts: Alex Beamon, Apple;
Ashok Saxena, Adobe; Ben Bauermeister, HP; Bert Bos, W3C; Dave
Raggett, W3C/HP; David Goldsmith, Apple; Ed Tecot, Microsoft, Erik van
Blokland, LettError; Fran&ccedil;ois Yergeau, Alis; Gavin Nicol, Inso;
Herbert van Zijl, Elsevier; Lee Quinn, SoftQuad; Martin D&uuml;rst,
Universit&auml;t Z&uuml;rich; Misha Wolf, Reuters; Paul Haeberli, SGI.

<P> Three people deserve special mentioning: Dave Raggett (for his
encouragement and work on HTML3), Chris Lilley (for his continued
contributions, especially in the area of colors and fonts) and Steven
Pemberton (for his organizational as well as creative skills).

<P> Special thanks to Arnaud Le Hors, whose engineering contributions
made this document work.
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