- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:04:12 -0700
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>, "Linss, Peter" <peter.linss@hp.com>, CSS-testsuite <public-css-testsuite@w3.org>
On Friday 2012-06-22 00:43 -0700, fantasai wrote: > On 06/21/2012 11:26 PM, L. David Baron wrote: > >On Thursday 2012-06-21 23:12 -0700, fantasai wrote: > >>I will point out that this recommendation has been in the format > >>documentation for many years at this point, so your aforementioned > >>complaint about changing rules does not apply. > > > >Can we remove it? There are many tests that are substantially > >easier to write with style attributes. > > Are they easier to review, update, and create and compare derivations > also? (As I said, these are not write-only tests.) It's easier to write > tests without indentation, too. But harder to read them later. In most cases, yes, because there's less unnecessary indirection. > >Why was it added? > > I don't recall the original motivations; it was a guideline hixie > followed in all his tests. > http://web.archive.org/web/20060203031756/http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/guidelines.html#format I think that's because Hixie was against the style attribute in principle. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂
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