- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 08:12:27 -0600
- To: gtn@ebt.com
- Cc: glenn@stonehand.com, glenn@stonehand.com, www-style@w3.org
From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
| >What has CD-ROM-ness got to do with anything? It shouldn't change the
| >interpretation of STYLE="{font.size: 14}" that I can think of.
|
| How about screen resolution then. 14 point may look big on an SVGA,
| and be unreadable on my display. That is the whole point of
| separation. By removing the platform-specific data out of the content,
| the content become immune to changes in the presentation environment.
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It's *slightly* easier to adjust the entries in the stylesheet than in
the document, but not significantly. It would, after all, be trivial to
create a stylesheet from entries in the document by walking the tree and
generating identifiers for the styles and IDs for the elements they are
attached to.
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|
| >Because, as a potential consumer of the product, it "feels wrong" to me.
| >Stylesheets feel right, but the inability to put information locally,
| >when appropriate, feels wrong. Intuition, based on experience, tells
| >me I will want to put my fingers where your restriction says I can't...
|
| You will loose in the long run. I would suggest that if you *really*
| want to put style information directly into the document, you should
| probably be lobbying browser writers to support RTF (or perhaps
| Rainbow ;-)).
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I want to be able to *occasionally* annotate an element directly. I'd
say it's significantly better than 50:50 that, whatever HTML-WG decides,
some vendors will add a STYLE attribute anyway.
scott
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Received on Friday, 8 December 1995 09:12:50 UTC