- From: Shane Thacker <shanethacker@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:43:55 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
I'm not a huge fan of using inline styles, but it strikes me as odd that I keep hearing arguments about constructing HTML documents as if all content and presentation decisions come from a single author who has control over the HTML and CSS for the entire page. that was usually true when I first started working on the web, but how often is that true anymore? While it annoyed myself and our Marketing folks -- who worked hard converting that standard corporate stylesheet for print pieces into something that would actually work on the web -- when someone who knew HTML used an inline style to come up with their own formatting for some page content, I don't see that as a reason to move @style to the <font> wasteland. Separating presentation from content is a good goal, but I doubt it will ever be completely achievable until we gave all authors control over the presentation and the content for their area of concern. Perhaps scoped styles would help with that, but I'm still seeing the possibility of having to dig through code to figure out why something is displaying the way it is, and that basically means presentation got separated from content for the computer, not for humans looking at the code. You can do that with @style as well. Shane
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