- From: Jeremy Dunck <ralinon@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 17:03:01 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
I wrote: > > I do think that allowing STYLE anywhere but head is dangerous, as is the > > STYLE attribute. Joshua Prowse wrote: > >What's the danger? > 1) You give up the benefit of centralized maintainability. 2) You give up readable markup-- When using the STYLE attribute, there is no way to see what the reasoning was for making that particular tag color: red. 3) Binding a particular representation to the content forces separate versions of the content based on media, and perhaps based on browser bugs. 4) You give up semantic markup. What's the benefit? I do think that it would be beneficial if there was a CSS extension to the DOM, which would allow better manipulation of the style rules which apply to a particular nodelist. I do -not- think that that's justification for hacking the [X]HTML as has been described here. -Jeremy Dunck _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
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