- From: Simon Pieters <zcorpan@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 15:26:23 +0200
- To: "Sander Tekelenburg" <st@isoc.nl>, public-html@w3.org
On Wed, 02 May 2007 07:41:10 +0200, Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl> wrote: > At 23:53 +0200 UTC, on 2007-05-01, Simon Pieters wrote: > > [...] > >> For what it's worth... I've been working on a style sheet for the HTML5 >> spec that selects everything that does not apply to authors. [...] >> http://simon.html5.org/temp/author-view-of-html5.css > > Thanks. Good idea! > > While Maciej may well be right that it would be difficult to truly > separate > UA and author requirements, such a separation seems a necessity to me if > we > hope authors will actually try to read the spec. If this split can > indeed be > achieved reliably through CSS that would be great! I thought so too. :-) > It could be done much easier and more reliably though if the HTML would > indicate UA-specificness with something like class="ua-only" ;) That would put the burden on the editor(s), and I think their time is better spent on actually editing the spec. > Of course I > don't know how the WHATWG spec is currently generated so I can't judge > how > much work that would be. > > If this approach works, then this Style Sheet should probably be served > with > the spec, as an alternate Style Sheet. And given that there is a > multipage > version, there would then need to be a mechanism to allow the choice for > an > alternate Style Sheet to be persistent. Indeed. -- Simon Pieters
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