Ian Hickson wrote: <snip> > semantic. The style information can always be split from the markup, > because it is not part of it. (This is one of the many reasons [1] that > the style attribute itself is unnecessary.) > > [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2003Jan/0277.html > Again, Ian... not necessarily true. In a "node viewer" application, it might OFTEN be desireable that the style travel with the node. Handing-around and viewing the node would be SO much easier if one need not worry about making sure that a LINK to the stylesheet, or an in-document STYLE element... is available at the time of node viewing, or when transcluding a new document together. In fact, I predict that MOST transcluded documents (made from pieces & parts of other documents) WILL have style attributes in the nodes... instead of trying to translate stylesheets or style tags from many sources... into the new transcluded document. Finding/extracting rules found in stylesheets, and rules in style elements... and converting them to style attribute strings... will become a common function of "node harvesting". Just my opinion. WingnutReceived on Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:08:53 UTC
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