As per Relevance of the word document, we have this rfc below:
Network Working Group H.
Request for Comments: 2318 B.
Category: Informational C.
W3
March 1998
The text/css Media
Status of this
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
memo is unlimited
Copyright
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language for the
Wide Web. CSS style sheets have been in use since October 1995
the Media Type text/css without registration; this memo seeks
regularize that position
1.
The World Wide Web Consortium has issued a Recommendation [1],
defines Cascading Style Sheets, level 1. This memo
information about the text/css Media Type
2. Cascading Style
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language for the
Wide Web. It describes the presentation (e.g. fonts, colors
spacing) of structured documents. CSS is human readable and writable
and expresses style in common desktop publishing terminology
CSS style sheets have been in use since October 1995 using the
Type text/css without registration; this memo seeks to
that position
A CSS style sheet can be either
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(1) external - the style sheet is linked to a document through
URI and exists as a separate object on the Web. The media
text/css is used when fetching the object, for example in
Content-Type and Accept header fields of HTTP [2].
(2) internal - the style sheet is contained within the document.
typical scenario is an HTML [3] document that contains a
sheet within the STYLE element. Due to this close relationship
HTML and CSS share the same top-level name ("text").
4. Registration
To: ietf-types@iana.
Subject: Registration of MIME media type text/
MIME media type name:
MIME subtype name:
Required parameters:
Optional parameters:
The syntax of CSS is expressed in US-ASCII, but a CSS file
contain strings which may use any Unicode character. Any
that is a superset of US-ASCII may be used; US-ASCII, iso-8859-
and utf-8 are recommended
Encoding considerations
For use with transports that are not 8-bit clean, quoted
printable encoding is recommended since the majority
characters will be CSS syntax and thus US-
Security considerations
Applying a style sheet to a document may hide
otherwise visible. For example, a very small font size may
specified, or the display of certain document elements may
turned off
CSS style sheets consist of declarative property/value
assigned to element selectors. They contain no executable code
As with HTML documents, CSS style sheets may contain links
other media (images, sounds, fonts, other style sheets) and
links are typically followed automatically by software,
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in the transfer of files without the explicit request of the
for each one. The security considerations of each linked file
those of the individual registered types
Interoperability considerations
CSS has proven to be widely interoperable across
platforms, across Web browsers of different makes, and for
and export in multiple authoring tools
Published specification: see [1]
Applications which use this media type
CSS is device-, platform- and vendor-neutral and is supported
a wide range of Web user agents and authoring tools
formatting HTML and XML documents
Additional information
Magic number(s):
File extension(s): .
Macintosh File Type Code(s): "css "
Object Identifier(s) or OID(s):
Person & email address to contact for further information
The authors of this memo
Intended usage:
Author/Change controller
5.
[1] Lie, H., and B. Bos, "Cascading Style Sheets, level 1",
W3C Recommendation REC-CSS1-961217, http://www.w3.org/TR/REC
CSS1-961217, December 1996.
[2] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Nielsen, H., and T
Berners-Lee, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1",
2068, January 1997.
[3] Raggett, D., Le Hors, A. and I. Jacobs, "HTML 4.0
Specification", W3C Recommendation REC-html40-971218,
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40, December 1997.
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6. Authors'
Hakon
W3C/
2004, route des Lucioles - B.P. 93
06902 Sophia Antipolis
Phone: +33 (0)492387771
Fax: +33 (0)493657765
EMail: howcome@w3.
Bert
2004, route des Lucioles - B.P. 93
06902 Sophia Antipolis
Phone: +33 (0)492387692
Fax: +33 (0)493657765
EMail: bert@w3.
Chris
2004, route des Lucioles - B.P. 93
06902 Sophia Antipolis
Phone: +33 (0)492387987
Fax: +33 (0)493657765
EMail: chris@w3.
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7. Full Copyright
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved
This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished
others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain
or assist in its implmentation may be prepared, copied, published
distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind
provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph
included on all such copies and derivative works. However,
document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by
the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or
Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose
developing Internet standards in which case the procedures
copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must
followed, or as required to translate it into languages other
English
The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not
revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns
This document and the information contained herein is provided on
"AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET
TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE
HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES
MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE."
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this is version 0.1 of the Relevance System and you gotta expect some crappy subroutines sometimes,
just be content we did not write this in Java, which would have made this "bigger and better" HAHAHHA.
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