- From: Ka-Ping Yee <s-ping@orange.cv.tottori-u.ac.jp>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 17:36:51 +0900
- To: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Cc: "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
David Perrell-- well said! David Perrell wrote: > > ... it seems to me Netscape's extensions are never as powerful as they > could be with a little more foresight and consideration (the center tag > vs a more general and powerful "align= " being one of many examples). Ah, but why bother taking time to think about it if you've got another great opportunity to make up a new tag? New tags are so much better for waving around and announcing, and they give you something else to proudly put the "invented-by-Netscape" label on. > <SPACER> seems relatively innocuous. But powerful? [...] > And why "spacer?" If planning on supporting CSS anyway, why don't you > use the same semantics and accept margin and spacing parameters for > the <Hn>, <P>, and <DIV> tags? <NSML> Oh, come on. I'd rather<SPACER TYPE=HORIZONTAL SIZE=8>write<SPACER TYPE=HORIZONTAL SIZE=7>more<SPACER TYPE=HORIZONTAL SIZE=9>spacer<SPACER TYPE=HORIZONTAL SIZE=5>tags<SPACER TYPE=HORIZONTAL SIZE=12>any<SPACER TYPE=HORIZONTAL SIZE=10>day. It's<SPACER TYPE=HORIZONTAL SIZE=6>so<SPACER TYPE=HORIZONTAL SIZE=7>much<SPACER TYPE=HORIZONTAL SIZE=6>more<SPACER TYPE=HORIZONTAL SIZE=9>fun<SPACER TYPE=HORIZONTAL SIZE=10>than using<SPACER TYPE=HORIZONTAL SIZE=11>stylesheets. </NSML> Oh, i can see those letterspaced headings now... Tell us this was carefully thought-out, Alex. I dare you. Explain why you just had to introduce SPACER before stylesheet support. What, were there too many FAQs from people about how to make one-dot clear GIFs or something? Ping
Received on Tuesday, 2 July 1996 04:38:55 UTC