RE: Liaison with CSS WG to provide a mechanism for expressing the style of document semantics

On 2008-05-28 Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com> wrote:

> Looking at this, I am curious as to why in the world, after 10 years of
> begging people to separate their styling from their semantics, we would then
> turn around and make a mechanism that allows people to embed content and
> semantics (in this case, putting a string with a legend text is certainly a
> form of content) into the style sheet.
[snip]
> The legend text does not belong in a *style* definition.

+1

(from the wiki entry: http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/SemanticPresentationLegendCSS
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.jesus {
      color: red;
      legend: "the words of Jesus";
     legend-presentation: "red letters";
}
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That's content and should not be in the style sheet.


-Steve

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Steve Axthelm
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