Using CSS would also require using non-standard properties to cover all the features of the Android platform. Doing so would certainly go against the benefit of using a standard in the first palce.
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Jean-Baptiste Queru <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ultimately, you'll want as much of everything as possible resolved at > compile-time, which means that even if you were using CSS it'd most > probably be resolved at build time into a static structure (like the > current XML files)... which means that what you want can be achieved > today without changing Android itself or even the development tools: > just create a tool that can generate Android layouts from whatever > format you like. > > In addition, CSS is typically designed to be applied to something, so > you wouldn't have CSS in addition to XML, you'd have it on top of XML. > > Finally, CSS (even without the HTML-specific parts, and even without > dynamic stylesheet) is a complex beast. To make things worse, many of > the implementations out there have all the HTML-specific behaviors > baked in, and typically have real-world legacy browser compatibility > added on top of that. That means that adding proper CSS support in > official tools is potentially a large and costly task, that shouldn't > be considered lightly. > > JBQ > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Raja Nagendra Kumar > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> For Style and Theams defination, CSS is considered to be a better >> standard...(as it has seen many revisions and widely used already in >> the web areas).. Any reason, why Android using XML approach as opposed >> to CSS.. Are there any plans of support of CSS too in future.. >> >> Regards, >> Raja Nagendra Kumar, >> C.T.O >> www.tejasoft.com >> > >> > > > > -- > Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru > Android Engineer, Google. > > > > -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
