RE: Comment on ITS 2.0 WD-its20-20121206 - Inline global rules in XHTML from Yves Savourel on 2013-01-31 (public-multilingualweb-lt-comments@w3.org from January 2013)

From: Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:12:43 -0700
To: <public-multilingualweb-lt-comments@w3.org>
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Hi Jirka,


> I'm not sure if correctly understand to meaning of "frown" here,
>  but we are discourage embeded rules in both XHTML and HTML:
>
> Section 6.2: "...Note: It is preferred to use external global rules linked using link element."
> 
> Section 7: "... and SHOULD NOT use inline global rules ..."
>
> Personally I think that both embeded (inline) rules and standoff markup 
> should be removed from HTML, but I'm probably alone :-(

I missed the section 6.2 note, probably because I was looking for a SHOULD NOT for HTML as well. "is preferred" and SHOULD NOT seems different degrees of encouraging/discouraging. maybe we could provide identical guidelines for both.

-yves

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