Re: HTML 3.2 PR: Please add CLASS attribute!
Carl Morris (msftrncs@htcnet.com)
Fri, 22 Nov 1996 18:23:00 -0600
Message-Id: <199611230025.SAA22862@inet.htcnet.com>
From: "Carl Morris" <msftrncs@htcnet.com>
To: "Arnoud \"Galactus\" Engelfriet" <galactus@htmlhelp.com>,
Subject: Re: HTML 3.2 PR: Please add CLASS attribute!
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 18:23:00 -0600
| Why isn't the CLASS attribute available in HTML 3.2? It is a real
| pain that you can't use style sheets on documents and keep them
| HTML 3.2 compliant.
Welcome, you just saw my light as to why I won't use a validator... I
don't think I should have to live by the rules of some DTD... HTML was
an extendable format, then it should be able to be extended without
requiring a new DTD to understand it... I wisH validators would go
"WARNING: unrecognized"
ranther than
"ERROR: Get rid of this, you can not use it"
| The addition of the attribute (supported by MS IE 3, so it would
| fall under the "current browser" flag) would not hurt *anything*
| on non-supporting browsers. The STYLE element, and the <LINK
| REL=stylesheet> method provide a reliable way to include style
| information in the document.
BTW I think that HTML 3.2 does define CLASS as a future extension...
they just are not ready to document it... If you want to validate your
CSS stuff you have to use a DTD that contains the CSS extensions...
| of this attribute, just something like "-- for future support of
| style sheet--" would be more than enough.
Thats whats in there now (Was the last time I looked anyway...