Håkon Wium Lie wrote: > > By loweing the weight of presentations hints, we increase the weight > of user styles sheets. We make it easier for users to write style > sheets that influence the presentation of documents. Users, as has already been pointed out, generally don't know or care whether the author uses <body> attributes or CSS to change the background of a page. If their style rule overrides one and not the other, it will appear as a bug. > We also signal to authors that deprecated features may actually go away one > day. That is /not/ the job of CSS. Has the WG not considered that CSS might be used for a markup language where existing presentational hints are not deprecated-- or even on track to be deprecated [1]? [1] DocBook, for instance. http://docbook.org/ ~fantasaiReceived on Monday, 19 August 2002 14:27:31 GMT
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