Re: Wiki page for style attribute

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On Jul 3, 2007, at 10:20 AM, Eric Daspet wrote:

> On 7/2/07, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com > wrote:
>
> On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:52:51 +0200, Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> >>  2. Syndication is also addressed by <style scope>.
> >
> > Fully disagree.
>
> I said "also". Could you please elaborate on why you disagree with  
> that?
>
>
> I do not see how "style scoped" could be a solution for  
> syndication. And, more generaly, I do not see how someone could  
> benefit from "style scoped" to put some external pieces of HTML  
> into a main document.
>
> [.. ]

A better solution to this problem (of styling external syndicated  
content) is to focus on semantics. Sites should focus on semantics  
through: HTML semantic elements, semantic oriented values for @class,  
@role, @type, etc. If they do then head elements can include scopes  
within a standard head stylesheet such as:
<html>
<head>
...
<style type='text/css'>
.contentFromWashingtonPost > .personalNoun {...}
</style>
...
</head>
<body>
...
<article class='contentFromWashingtonPost'>
...
</article>
...
</body>
</html>

Again, there may be a better solution for a CSS WG. They could  
provide some more explicit scoping like a @scope {} keyword. In any  
even a focus on semantics will provide a much cleaner solution to  
this problem (just more reason we should be deprecating  
presentational facilaties).

Take care,
Rob