- From: Denis Boudreau (WebConforme) <dboudreau@webconforme.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 14:16:16 -0400
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Hi there, > I am asked to review other organizations' web sites on an almost > weekly basis, and if I had a dollar for every time I saw this exact > configuration: > <body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> > I'd be spending my vacation in Montreal. That's too bad, you'd love it. Montreal is a beautiful city. ;) > I'm sure it's not just the public sector, so this must be a fairly > common usage. Should it be written into the HTML 5 spec? My vote > would be no. After years of nudging the reluctant to separate > presentational information from the actual content, along come > authoring tools and CMSs that apparently are not with the program. > All it takes is one misinformed programmer working for a tool > vendor and voila -- instant cowpath. I agree. This is the exact same point made by John Folliot earlier. It's not because people do something that it's necessarily good or worth building a spec around. There is some sort of simplification of ideas in this debate that is quite disturbing. I guess my criticism is as good as any when it comes to being against instant cowpaths. -- Denis Boudreau, Directeur WebConforme / AccessibilitéWeb 1751 rue Richardson, bureau 3.501 Montréal (Qc), Canada H3K 1G6 Téléphone : +1 514.448.2650 Télécopieur : +1 514.667.2216 dboudreau@webconforme.com blackberry@webconforme.com http://www.webconforme.com/
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