Stylesheet-Languages

Two types of Style-sheet Languages can be listed:

two types of Stylesheet Languages

STANDARD STYLESHEET LANGUAGE

Standard StyleSheet Languages has been listed here:

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS):

•  Website Developers/Designers must have worked on CSS for designing web pages.

•   It is a style sheet language 

•   Describes presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language, means
    the look and formatting of a document.

Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL): 

•   It is a computer language for specifying stylesheets for SGML document

•   It was considered  complex for World Wide Web(WWW) and World Wide Web 
    Consortium(W3C)

•   WWW and W3C thought about creating  DSSSL-Lite 

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL):

•   It is used to refer a family of languages used to transform and render XML documents.

•   XSL was started as an attempt to bring functionality of DSSSL(Document Style
    Semantics and Specification Language)

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NON STANDARD STYLESHEET LANGUAGE

Non-standard stylesheet languages has been listed here:

JavaScript Style Sheets (JSSS): 

•   JSSS was a stylesheet language technology proposed by Netscape Communications
    Corporation in 1996

•   It provided facilities for defining presentation of webpages and considered as an 
    alternative to the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

•   Netscape 6 released in the year 2000 and stopped support of JSSS.

Formatted Output Specification Instance (FOSI)

•    It was developed by the US Department of Defense to control the layout of SGML
     and XML technical data. 

•    It is a stylesheet language for SGML and later for XML.

•    FOSI stylesheets are written in SGML. 

Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (Sass)

•   It is a scripting language that is interpreted into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

•   The official implementation of Sass is open-source and is coded in Ruby,

•   Saas other implementations include PHP forDrupal, high-performance implementation
    in C called libSass, Java implementation which is called JSass 

LESS

•   It is an open-source dynamic stylesheet  language. 

•   Its first version was written in Ruby..

•   The use of Ruby was deprecated I later versions and replaced by JavaScript. 

•   It can be compiled into plain CSS.

•   It can run on the client-side and server-side.

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