- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:30:34 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: HTMLwg WG <public-html@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen, Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:31:45 +0200: > On Mar 24, 2010, at 04:08, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> To give a specific example, I would like to consistently avoid >> presentational markup on the webkit.org, but I do not want to add an >> xmlns declaration to every page. > > I sometimes create Web pages in OpenOffice.org Writer/Web but want to > make the pages conform to my site CSS. I find that to spot all the > cruft it's not sufficient to look for markup that HTML5 bans but that > looking for style="..." and <span> is also necessary. When it comes to exporting HTML/XHTML from word processors, then a <span style="font-weight:bold"> or a <span class="bold"> is appears much less semantic to an author, overlooking the code, than e.g. a simple <b> would do. The "export something from a word processor" use case is one were a degree of presentational mark-up seems much more useful than e.g. only the elements of HTML4 strict. > We already experimented with banning style="..." and that didn't go > down well. ... -- leif halvard sili
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