Re: Controlling structure with CSS

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Adam Kuehn wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
>>>
>>> So if an author wants functional flexibility, why not require the
>>> author to explicitly rethink the structure so as to allow for it?
>>
>> Because the stylesheet author might not have any control over the
>> markup.
>
> Then change my question to read "authors", plural.  If functional
> flexibility is required, it needs to be designed in - by whomever is
> doing the designing.

The person wanting to do the presentation might not have any control over
the author whatsoever. For example, a user writing a user stylesheet for a
site that he wants to rearrange.

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