- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:04:28 +0000
- To: CSS Style <www-style@w3.org>
On 16 Jan 2008, at 13:32, Dmitry Turin wrote: > >>> But what is the non-presentational attributes ? > DD> accept-charset, accept, accesskey, action, archive > > I have unconsciously excluded service attributes. Any specification that comes out of this would have to deal with them though. > DD> abbr, alt, axis > > They are used to explain element's content in special case > (mouse is over, blind browser) - > they are not perceptible by user _always, constantly_. > These are sooner decorative possililities. No. The information might not be presented to all users under all circumstances, but that does not make them decorative. > Let me raise once again > http://html60.euro.ru/site/html60/en/author/forxml_eng.htm This does not seem to relate to the setting of attributes from CSS. > Returing to gold of discussion: > if author move mentioned attributes into css-file, > then they become inaccessible for UA, not downloading css-file. > First, loss is not great even now. That depends what attributes the author moves into the presentation layer (CSS /is/ a presentation layer). Having, for instance, the alt text moved there would pose a serious problem to users without images. > Second, upgrade of robots (to append attributes from css-file > to tree of elements) is relatively small job, As I've explained, this is NOT a "relatively small job". It would require major rewrites for many user agents. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/
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