- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:45:24 +0100
- To: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "Sam Ruby" <rubys@intertwingly.net>
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:17:27 +0100, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote: > The reasons given for disallowing presentational markup given are: > - The use of presentational elements leads to poorer accessibility > - Higher cost of maintenance > - Higher document sizes > > To explore this, I offer this nearly perfect specimen of markup: > > http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/06/30/irony > > And draw attention to two parts: > > <b style="background:transparent;color:red">1984</b> > <strike>the</strike> > > The former conforms to the author conformance requirements present in > the document. How does this lead to greater accessibility than the > alternative? How does it reduce maintenance costs? How does it reduce > document sizes? I'm not sure whether those are the right questions. It seems to me that this is why the style="" attribute is allowed. For the rare cases where you want a slightly different presentation. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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