Today's style sheet standards: the great vision blinded

Marden, Philip M.; Munson, Ethan V.

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“…The limited expressivity and complexity of CSS for web design is a known problem [37,32,27,45,30]. The work in [44] asks for debugging tools for CSS and proposes solutions to assist CSS development in authoring tools while [32,31,47] propose compilation from more expressive style languages to CSS to improve productivity and avoid bugs.…”

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“…This makes HTML/CSS authoring extremely labor-intensive and time-consuming [32,27,30]. In particular, CSS styling largely remains an art [3,37,30]: CSS does not Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee.…”

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Compiling mockups to flexible UIs

Sinha

Karim

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering

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As the web becomes ubiquitous, developers are obliged to develop web applications for a variety of desktop and mobile platforms. Re-designing the user interface for every such platform is clearly cumbersome. We propose a new framework based on model-based compilation to assist the designer in solving this problem. Starting from an under-specified visual design mockup drawn by the designer, we show how faithful and flexible web pages can be obtained with virtually no manual effort. Our framework, in sharp contrast to existing web design tools, overcomes the tough challenges involved in mockup compilation by (a) employing combinatorial search to infer hierarchical layouts and (b) mechanizing adhoc principles for CSS design into a modular, extensible rulebased architecture. We believe ours is the first disciplined effort to solve the problem and will inspire rapid, low-effort web design.

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Compiling mockups to flexible UIs

Sinha

Karim

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering

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“…L'outil est capable de détecter statiquement une large classe d'erreurs (comme les sélecteurs CSS vides ou sémantiquement équivalents), ainsi que de prouver des propriétés liées à des ensembles de documents (comme la couverture de l'information de style), en présence ou en l'absence de contraintes définies par des schémas. Ce nouvel outil peut être utilisé en combinaison avec les1 Introduction "Style sheet languages are terribly under-researched" [11]. This statement dates back from 1999, but it is still true.…”

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On the analysis of cascading style sheets

Genevès

Layaïda

Quint

2012

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web

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Abstract:Developing and maintaining cascading style sheets (CSS) is an important issue to web developers as they suffer from the lack of rigorous methods. Most existing means rely on validators that check syntactic rules, and on runtime debuggers that check the behavior of a CSS style sheet on a particular document instance. However, the aim of most style sheets is to be applied to an entire set of documents, usually defined by some schema. To this end, a CSS style sheet is usually written w.r.t. a given schema. While usual debugging tools help reducing the number of bugs, they do not ultimately allow to prove properties over the whole set of documents to which the style sheet is intended to be applied. We propose a novel approach to fill this lack. We introduce ideas borrowed from the fields of logic and compile-time verification for the analysis of CSS style sheets. We present an original tool based on recent advances in tree logics. The tool is capable of statically detecting a wide range of errors (such as empty CSS selectors and semantically equivalent selectors), as well as proving properties related to sets of documents (such as coverage of styling information), in the presence or absence of schema information. This new tool can be used in addition to existing runtime debuggers to ensure a higher level of quality of CSS style sheets.

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“…While some research has already been done on the manipulation of XSL in authoring tools [11], it seems that CSS has received much less attention from the research community. As Marden and Munson note in [8], "style sheet languages are terribly underresearched". Some authors discuss the design and the key features of style sheet languages (see Håkon Lie's thesis [6] for a comprehensive review of languages, or [1] [7] for specific languages).…”

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Editing with style

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Vatton

2007

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

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HTML has popularized the use of style sheets, and the advent of XML has stressed the importance of style as a key area complementing document structure and content. A number of tools are now available for producing HTML and XML documents, but very few are addressing style issues. In this paper we analyze the requirements for style manipulation tools, based on the main features of the CSS language. We discuss methods and techniques that meet these requirements and that can be used to efficiently support web authors in style sheet manipulation. The discussion is illustrated by the recent developments made in the Amaya web authoring environment.

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Today's style sheet standards: the great vision blinded

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Compiling mockups to flexible UIs

Compiling mockups to flexible UIs

On the analysis of cascading style sheets

Editing with style

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