- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:17:55 -0000
- To: www-html@w3.org
> From: Tantek Çelik [SMTP:tantek@cs.stanford.edu] > > I am arguing for *both*. Authors should have the *choice* of using a > externally referenced mechanism or an inline mechanism. > Inline style encourages documents in which the only structural elements are span and div. On the other hand, the genie has been let out of the bottle, and I cannot see any commercial browser supplier ever removing inline styling, because of its WYSISYG "benefits", and if it were removed from browsers, I can't see any mainstream authoring tool designer removing the appearance that you can do that, even if the tool really generated #id selectors for every element. Just looking at the way people use MS Word, very few people, even amongst graduates, think in terms of structure.
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