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| Style sheet languages are computer languages which | | | | useful than FOSI in terms of usage and power. |
| was introduced when the market demanded for a | | | | As the market grew larger, several new style sheet |
| new way or method of designing a website other | | | | languages were introduced in the market. One of |
| than the use of tables and spacers. In the past, | | | | which is CSS or Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is a |
| tables were widely used because if allowed designers | | | | style sheet language which is a combination of two |
| to manipulate the many elements in a website. | | | | style sheet languages, Cascading HTML Style Sheets |
| However, the use of tables and spacers caused | | | | (CHSS) and Stream-based Style Sheet Proposal |
| several problems in a website. One of which is it | | | | (SSP). |
| generated too much codes resulting to slowed down | | | | According to many Web design Philippines experts, |
| loading of website as it needed more bandwidth for | | | | the advantage that made CSS more powerful than |
| it to load. | | | | DSSSL and FOSI is that CSS allowed a document's |
| Introduction to style sheet language | | | | style to be influenced by multiple style sheets. One |
| Style sheet languages were eventually introduced in | | | | style sheet could inherit or "cascade" from another, |
| the market to answer to the demand for new | | | | permitting a mixture of stylistic preferences |
| methods of designing a website. According to many | | | | controlled equally by the site designer and user. |
| Web design Philippines experts, there are several | | | | Other style sheet languages of today |
| style sheet languages used in the past to | | | | Other than CSS, many more style sheet languages |
| compensate to these needs. Some of which are | | | | were introduced in the past as well as in today's |
| DSSSL and FOSI. | | | | market. One of the most recognized is XSL, a style |
| DSSSL (or Document Style Semantics and | | | | sheet language which was standardized because of |
| Specification Language) and FOSI (or Formatting | | | | its powerful styling language. According to many |
| Output Specification Instance) are both computer | | | | professionals, such as those from Web design |
| languages used for specifying stylesheets for SGML. | | | | Philippines companies, XSL is more powerful than CSS |
| Both was eventually introduced in XML as style sheet | | | | in several aspects. |