- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 10:29:03 +0200
- To: Stephanos Piperoglou <stephanos@hol.gr>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Stephanos Piperoglou writes: > > The "problem" as I see it is that, even in light of CSS1 implementation, > there is no tag that has NO other purpose other than applying a style to a > selection. Styles can only be applied to phrase markup and block elements > that ALREADY carry a meaning of sorts. Right. This need has already been forseen; see the description of the SPAN element in [1] which has no implied typographic or semantic meaning. > What we should have is simply a tag (something like FORMAT or RENDER) which > only has one attribute: CLASS. Right. Actually it has several: id, class, and style for stylesheet use plus lang and dir for I18N. [1] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-style -- Chris
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