- From: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:35:59 +0200
- To: Mike Schinkel <w3c-lists@mikeschinkel.com>
- CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Dão Gottwald schrieb:
>
> Mike Schinkel schrieb:
>>
>> Dão Gottwald wrote:
>>> Mike Schinkel schrieb:
>>>>> The situation in which people can only insert snippets and not
>>>>> affect their
>>>>> presentation can exist for very good reasons: to ensure that they
>>>>> don't
>>>>> create a mess.
>>>> Again, specious. The case would be far more often than people would
>>>> need to be given reasonable control of how their snippets would be
>>>> formatted. What site owner wants user contributions to be poorly
>>>> visually formatted ?
>>> It is the page author who rules the layout. If she wants code blocks
>>> to be indented, adding |pre { margin-left: 2em; }| to the stylesheet
>>> is the trivial solution.
>> Once again you are mistakenly believing that all HTML authors author
>> entire HTML pages. That is far from reality, and increasingly less so
>> each passing day.
>
> Replace "page author" by "site owner". It doesn't matter. The point is,
> you usually want pages to look frankensteinesque, no matter how many
> people participated.
Err, you usually *don't* want pages to look frankensteinesque. :)
--Dao
Received on Monday, 16 April 2007 09:36:05 UTC