- From: Gareth Hay <gazhay@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 12:04:01 +0100
- To: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
I'd agree with you Philip, regarding your comments. Though perhaps not the example. I do I feel compelled to add a point regarding CSS usage. css-garden aside, I don't know anyone who writes CSS for someone else's HTML. There will of course be people who do this for a variety of specialist applications, but in general you don't see people doing it. So I believe that although CSS is *supposed* to be separable, in reality it is just used as a convenient way to store style declarations for a whole site in one document, and is strongly coupled with the HTML created by the author. So I think the example is a little flawed. After all if you turn off the CSS on a great many sites, the results will not be readable at all, as it would if you started telling browsers to ignore tags. Gareth On 1 May 2007, at 11:52, Philip Taylor (Webmeister) wrote: > > > Adrian Sutton wrote: > > > If you outlaw the <font> tag, you'll just get <span style="font- > family: > > ...."> instead which has no more semantic benefit and is far more > difficult > > to work with. > > I'm sorry, I disagree : I can disable document-embedded CSS in > my browser, if I find a document difficult or impossible > to read -- I don't believe there is any corresponding proposal > to allow browser users to specify which sub-set of tags the > browser should ignore. > > Philip Taylor >
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