On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 04:28:15PM +0200, Luca Passani wrote: > migrating existing web apps. So, what's the point in having this petty > feature creep in late versions of a completely different standard? It's not "feature creep". The XHTML working group is tasked with maintaining the 1.* series of markup languages as well as developing XHTML 2 - and there is consensus for, at some point, removing the STYLE attribute because it /is/ mixing presentation and content. And that's why it is being deprecated, as Shane pointed out, to 'warn' developers of what is to come. > If you ask me, someone here isn't understanding developers. We /are/ developers - but we have a different set of responsibilities, and among them is to, in a controlled and regulated manner, remove cruft from the language(s). Personally I think I do know myself :), but using STYLE has never been a good way of maintaining quality code with good separation between layout and content. The problem with merging differently-styled content is largely due to this, but it is also a different topic. -- - Tina Holmboe siteSifter Greytower Technologies http://www.sitesifter.co.uk http://www.greytower.net Website Quality and Accessibility TestingReceived on Tuesday, 24 June 2008 14:41:54 GMT
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