XML News from Saturday, March 13, 2004

The W3C Cascading Style Sheets working group has posted the first public working draft of The CSS 'Reader' Media Type. "'Reader' is a keyword for use in Media Queries [MEDIAQ]. When a Media Query that includes the 'reader' keyword is attached to (a link to) a style sheet, it indicates that that style sheet is designed to be used by a "reader" device (typically a screen reader), that both displays and speaks a document at the same time. It may also display the document and render it in braille at the same time, or do all three."


The W3C Cascading Style Sheets working group has posted the first public working draft of CSS3 Hyperlink Presentation Module. " This specification is a module of level 3 of CSS and contains the functionality required to describe the presentation of hyperlink source anchors and the effects of hyperlink activation." The draft includes this convenient summary of the four properties it defines: