At present, no browser supports this CSS markup, even Opera's own. But Lie hopes browser makers see the value in this markup, as a way to promote greater use of the Web in general. Much as CSS provided the basis for Web developers to design pages with , GCPM would provide the basis for formatting pages in a more stylish manner.

"We're Web fundamentalists," he said, referring to Opera. "We feel all the information that mankind produces should be on the Web. And once it's there, we should have a good way of presenting it."

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