WYMstyle aims to suppress the tedious compatibility testing across browsers for each created website, by providing CSS modules which are reliable and well-tested.
WYMstyle can't be used with all existing web pages.
To use WYMstyle, the developer and his pages must comply to a precisely defined HTML structure.
But this limitation can be viewed as positive, because the imposed structure is not arbitrary and the order of the elements can be considered as ideal in terms of search engine optimisation and accessibility: contents are placed first in source order, not navigation.
Here are some key features of "WYMstyle":
WYMstyle favors:
· Speed of developement
· Easiness of maintenance
· Modularity
· Reuse of work across projects
· Centralisation of styles related to different projects
· Ease of understanding of the CSS code.
At the cost of:
· Optimization (there can be a lot of independent CSS files to import, which multiplies the number of server requests, and there are lots of comments).
· Independence of your websites stylesheets (in the case that you adopt the proposed method of hosting only one instance of WYMstyle).
For these reasons:
· Multiple imports are used without restrictions. There can be lots of nested stylesheet imports (in fact, MSIE don't support more than 4 levels of nesting, so WYMstyle doesn't use more than 4 levels)
· Can host WYMstyle at an unique location, rather than making a copy for each project.
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