Re: the STYLE attribute

Joe,

 > >  - the STYLE attribute mixes presentational information into the
 > >    structure of the docuement. This is just what style sheets try to
 > >    avoid, and the attribute is therefore counter-productive.
 > 
 > I would think that a stronger argument against it
 > is that it would tie HTML to a single stylesheet notation.
 > Or is this stuff considered far enough past the ``experimental''
 > stage that supporting different notations is no longer an issue?

No, we need to support different notations. The idea is to declare the
notation somewhere, perhaps in a STYLE element in the header or as an
attribute to BODY.

Regards,

-h&kon

Hakon W Lie, W3C/INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
http://www.w3.org/People/howcome  howcome@w3.org

Received on Friday, 10 November 1995 13:49:35 UTC