- From: Dylan Just <dylan.just@ephox.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:23:39 -0400
- To: "Giovanni Campagna" <scampa.giovanni@gmail.com>
- Cc: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, <www-style@w3.org>
These workarounds are great, but they are all complicated. Yes, separation of style and content is a good thing, but the 'style' attribute is a practical necessity when you don't have access to the stylesheet or a <style> block - this is simply a constraint placed upon us by most CMS vendors. In most cases, we only have access to edit the contents of the <body>. Stylesheets are generally managed by an entirely different subsystem. Even with the workarounds available, and regardless of content vs style, it would still be useful to have a simple css attribute as a 'shortcut' to set this common style. If I can set a normal bulleted/numbered list with one css attribute, why do I need 3-8 to create an outline numbered list? Counters and ::before provide useful flexibility for general cases. What I'm suggesting is a simple shortcut for a common use case.
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