Re: In support of the "line space" (nee <hr>)

on 21-08-2002 12:10, Chris Mannall at chris.mannall@hecubagames.com wrote:

> Regardless of which side you fall on the "hr is structure" versus "hr is
> presention" argument, these attributes are clearly all presentational
> and therefore undesirable. The general consensus is that XHTML should
> have nothing to do with presentation beyond linking to an external
> stylesheet or declaring an internal stylesheet.
> 
> Everything you've suggested here can be easily achieved with CSS:
> 
> hr {
> margin-top:5px; margin-bottom:5px;
> width:75%;
> border-width:1px; border-style:groove;
> }

I think that default presentational attributes are very important and must
be suggested by W3C with the proposal of spreading
1. a good visual design education
2. a well structured information architecture
3. and a right use of specific words [avoiding the use of generic words in
favor of technical words related to each knowledge field (i.e typography,
graphic design, information architecture, bibliography, etc.)]

The precise definition of a presentation standard for each element is very
important for a correct rendering in each browser/media, avoiding
differences in the renderings as happened in the past between MSIE and
Netscape (i.e. button dimensions, window dimensions, etc.)

What do you think?