- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:13:31 -0500
- To: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
- CC: www-style@w3.org
From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> | The danger in CSS is that the myth of author/reader balance will cause | authors to stop thinking about accessiblity in the design of their | stylesheets and in the deployment of CLASS sets and DTDs. Those with a | fuzzy understanding of cascading will argue: "I don't have to do | anything special, the cascade puts the reader in charge." The truth is | that authors can make readers' lives hellish. Just as in the bad old | days of <FONT ...>, authors must take responsibility. Readers should | only have to take control as a last resort. --- I do agree that the cascade leaves things muddier than I like. I'd also like to point to a suggestion I made a long time ago in the CSS evolution - if would be very useful for *reader*-side stylesheets to be able to have selection rules based on rendering, rather than on document structure, so that a user could say "if the final presentation of an element would be in red, underline it, too". scott -- scott preece motorola/css urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.css.mot.com
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