| CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is one of the most | | | | accessible way. DSSSL can convert to a wide range |
| widely used form of style sheet languages used in | | | | of formats, including RTF, HTML, and LaTeX. Today, |
| the market. According to many professionals, CSS | | | | however, DSSSL is gradually being replaced by XSL. |
| was the perfect move from the use of tables in | | | | According to Web design Philippines experts, the |
| web designs to tableless designs. However, before | | | | difference that made CSS more popular in the |
| CSS was developed and made the standard language | | | | market is because unlike DSSSL and FOSI, CSS |
| used in the industry, there have also been other style | | | | allowed a document's style to be influenced by |
| sheet languages used in the industry. Some of the | | | | multiple style sheets. One style sheet could inherit or |
| known languages are FOSI and DSSSL. | | | | "cascade" from another, permitting a mixture of |
| FOSI (Formatting Output Specification Instance) | | | | stylistic preferences controlled equally by the site |
| The Formatting Output Specification Instance or | | | | designer and user. However, other than DSSSL and |
| FOSI was first used as a style sheet language used | | | | FOSI, JSSS has also been a style sheet language |
| for SGML then it was eventually used in XML. FOSI | | | | which have been known to have competed with |
| was developed by the US Department of Defense | | | | CSS. |
| to control the pagination and layout of SGML and | | | | JSSS (JavaScript Style Sheets) JavaScript Style |
| XML technical data. According to many Web design | | | | Sheets (JSSS) was a stylesheet language technology |
| Philippines experts, FOSI stylesheets are themselves | | | | proposed by Netscape Communications Corporation |
| written in SGML. It was an approach which was later | | | | in 1996 to provide facilities for defining the |
| adopted by XSL, a style sheet language that | | | | presentation of webpages. It was an alternative to |
| competes with CSS in today's industry. | | | | the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) technology. |
| DSSSL (Document Style Semantics and Specification | | | | However, it was never accepted as a formal |
| Language) Document Style Semantics and | | | | standard and it never gained much acceptance in the |
| Specification Language or DSSSL is a computer | | | | market. According to many Web design Philippines |
| language for specifying stylesheets for SGML | | | | experts, Netscape eventually stopped promoting |
| documents. SGML contains information in a | | | | JSSS and instead focused on the rival CSS standard, |
| machine-readable but not very human-readable | | | | which was also supported by Internet Explorer and |
| format. A "stylesheet" is used to present the | | | | had much wider industry acceptance. Visit for more |
| information stored in SGML in a more pleasing or | | | | info. |