Fwd: Re: [html401] <style> element

There is no DOM WG, but forwarding it to the public DOM mailing list  
anyway so it gets archived at an appropriate place.


------- Forwarded message -------
From: "Jim Ley" <jim.ley@gmail.com>
To: "www-html-editor@w3.org" <www-html-editor@w3.org>
Cc:
Subject: Re: [html401] <style> element
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:37:12 +0100


On 1/23/06, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:10:54 +0100, Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Could you clarify what you mean by "styling language"?  Is this not
> > covered by the type element?
>
> No. If you eventually end up with a DOM that is like:
>
>  STYLE
>   #comment
>   #text
>   #comment
>   FOO
>    #text
>   #text
>
> ... it is unclear what the UA is supposed to extract from the STYLE
> element to pass on to the styling system.

I think you need to clarify with the DOM WG first that such a thing is
possible, as it is not clear to me that adding such a document
shouldn't produce a  HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR when you're using
appendChild.

Jim.



-- 
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>

Received on Monday, 23 January 2006 17:46:59 UTC