- From: Ka-Ping Yee <s-ping@orange.cv.tottori-u.ac.jp>
- Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 20:52:20 +0900
- To: Stephanos Piperoglou <stephanos@hol.gr>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Stephanos Piperoglou wrote: > > The "problem" as I see it is that, even in light of CSS1 implementation, > there is no tag that has NO other purpose other than applying a style to a > selection. Styles can only be applied to phrase markup and block elements > that ALREADY carry a meaning of sorts. When this is content markup, all's > fine and dandy. And that's what it should be. CLASS assigns a more specific shade of meaning to a marked-up piece of text. If you need to assign a meaning that doesn't fit with any existing structural element, then you can use SPAN. > What we should have is simply a tag (something like FORMAT or RENDER) which > only has one attribute: CLASS. If my understanding is correct, i think you have missed the point. The purpose of CLASS should go far beyond just applying stylesheets. CLASS *is* content markup, and you should be able to hook in lots of things besides stylesheets (as well as choosing among different stylesheets for different preferences or different media). Ping
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