- From: Rzepa, Henry <h.rzepa@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 21:14:25 +0000
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
>On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Renice Stewart wrote: > >> Dave, This perhaps is not a "bug," but it's 'bugging' me. Why >> is it that when I use the "center" attribute in the "img" tag, I >> have to change it to "middle"... and when I use this same >> attribute in any other tag, I can keep it as "center." >> >> My dilemma is...shouldn't w3 be consistent...Or is there some >> other reason for this incongruity? > >This is an accident of history -- from the way Mosaic implemented >HTML. W3C is transitioning away from presentation attributes and >towards the use of style sheets, so this isn't something we can >easily fix. Along the same lines, can we persuade Tidy to convert element height and width attributes into their stylesheet equivalent? -- Henry Rzepa. Imperial College, Chemistry Dept. +44 020 7594 5774 (Office) +44 020 7594 5804 (Fax)
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