- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:57:21 -0500
- To: gtn@ebt.com
- CC: Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr, knoblock@worldnet.att.net, www-style@w3.org, papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca, ngalarneau@concord6.powersoft.com
From: gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol) | | >With the sole exception that, of course, an HTML 2.0 | 3.2 browser can | >do something vagely sensible with <p class=copyright> and <h2 | >class=chaptertitle> wheras it can do nothing much with <copyright> and | ><chaptertitle> except pretent the tags weren't there. | | The point I made was that if you can do one, it is no harder to do | the other. --- No - the 2.0/3.2 browser knows what to do with p and h2 elements; it does not know what to do with copyright and chaptertitle elements. If you use the element forms, the old browser is unable to do *anything* useful with them (like inserting paragraph breaks or formatting as a header); if you use the CLASS forms, the browser still has the element type to use to guide a default action. Now, a CSS1-supporting browser, on the other hand, could deal with either form more-or-less equivalently. scott -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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