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| CSS is one of the most widely used style sheet | | | | Specification Language is a type of style sheet |
| language since the end of the table website design | | | | language which was used as a way to control the |
| regime. According to several experts, such as those | | | | elements in a website. Actually, according to many |
| from Web design Philippines companies, the use of | | | | Web design Philippines experts, DSSSL was a |
| CSS was the most successful transition from table | | | | computer language used to specify stylesheets for |
| web designs to tableless web design. Some experts | | | | SGML documents. This is because SGML usually |
| even call CSS as "tableless website design". | | | | contains information which is only machine-readable, |
| "Tableless Web Design" | | | | but not very human-readable format. To present the |
| The advantage of CSS from table web design was | | | | information stored in SGML in a more pleasing or |
| because of its bandwidth efficiency. In the past, | | | | accessible way, a stylesheet language is used. In this |
| tables were the only method used to control the | | | | case, DSSSL. |
| elements found in a website. This, however, posed | | | | FOSI or Formatting Output Specification Instance is |
| several problems. Because pages are designed with | | | | another computer language used for SGML which, like |
| tables nested within tables, this resulted in large | | | | DSSSL, was later moved to XML. FOSI stylesheets |
| HTML documents which use more bandwidth than | | | | are themselves written in SGML, an approach that |
| documents with simpler formatting. | | | | would later be adopted by XSL. FOSI was |
| Eventually, the demand for a new method for web | | | | implemented by, among others, Datalogics, Arbortext |
| design risen, and the talk of tableless website design | | | | and X.Systems. |
| begun to grow. And CSS was one of them. CSS | | | | The advantage of CSS from FOSI and DSSSL is that, |
| provided a way for websites to consume lesser | | | | unlike these style sheet languages, CSS allowed a |
| bandwidth through the separation of the document | | | | document's style to be influenced by multiple style |
| from the layout of the website. However, before | | | | sheets. According to Web design Philippines |
| CSS was introduced in the market, several other | | | | specialists, CSS allows one style sheet could inherit or |
| style sheet languages were used as an alternative to | | | | "cascade" from another, permitting a mixture of |
| the use of tables. These includes the DSSSL and | | | | stylistic preferences controlled equally by the site |
| FOSI. | | | | designer and user. |