- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 21:01:20 +0200
- To: public-html-comments@w3.org
A personal comment on http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD- html5-20110525/semantics.html#the-style-element Scoped style sheets are complex, difficult to maintain for authors, and not needed. Especially with the new SEAMLESS attribute, there is no need to combine separate documents in a single file: they can be transcluded instead. That keeps each of them simple, easy to maintain, easy to re- use, and easy to parse: one head element with metadata (including style), one body element, and every document its own URL. If it is necessary, e.g., for transport reasons, to combine several resources in one file, it is better to use a generic solution, one that works not only for HTML documents, but for any documents. That could be, e.g., a zip or tar file or a multipart MIME file. Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos W3C/ERCIM bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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