- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 08:57:55 -0400
- To: bsittler@prism.nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler), "Chris Tilbury" <C.J.Tilbury@estate.warwick.ac.uk>
- Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org
>1. Why have the OUTLINE attribute at all? Just use stylesheets, giving > collapsing/noncollapsing behaviour on the basis of ID or (better yet) a > presentation-specific STYLE attribute. I do not see this outlining thing as requiring us to move back towards presentation-specific. We shun "BLINK" because we believe that anything that blinks probably blinks for a reason. It is somehow a different element than things that do not blink. Therefore the element should be named as what it _is_, and BLINKing should be an attribute attached to that thing. Similarly there must be a good reason why some elements are collapsed and not others. Perhaps the "top level" elements are expanded and all others are collapsed. That can be expressed either in the a CLASS attribute (i.e. CLASS = TOPLEVEL) or with a sophisticated style-sheet "query" language(i.e. HTML.BODY.UL[CLASS=Collapsible].LI.expanded = TRUE ). Paul Prescod ---------------------------------------------------------- Paul Prescod (papresco@calum.uwaterloo.ca)
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