- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:28:46 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Monday, October 17, 2005, 7:57:23 AM, Ian wrote: IH> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Chris Lilley wrote: >> >> [...] is "example" content, or is it added using styling? IH> Both, it varies on a case by case basis. >> >> IH> All examples have the word "example" in their "class" attribute, which is >> >> IH> (as described in that section) used to style the paragraphs appropriately. >> >> >> >> Great. Please say so in the spec. >> >> IH> Refering to the markup used is quite inappropriate. It would help almost >> IH> none of our readers, and probably just confuse the beginners. Treating all your readers as fools is not a good way forward. If someone is reading a specification on adding styling to marked-up documents, its clear that they know what markup is. >> No, it would then make it clear that the styling is done based on >> semantic classes. IH> It would make that not in the least bit clear, since many of our readers IH> have no idea what that means. Which takes us right back to useful examples. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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