What shouldn't be embedded

Dear TAG,

from http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/06/24-minutes.html#item02:
> <masinter> ((want to put in a pitch for embedded metadata))
>
> <jar> ((embedded is always better than Link: **all other things being equal**))
How so? Isn't, e.g., an out of band link to a stylesheet the ultimate separation of content from presentation (currently imperfect with style attributes or elements, although better that presentational markup)?

On a related note, I don't find the AWWW rule on embedded character encoding information fortunate either. It causes problems (use of application instead of text in MIME for stuff like XHTML that's clearly hyperTEXT, security issues around UTF-7 and other encodings) and is unreliable because you need to guess the encoding first in order to consume the embedded encoding information. In this case the CSS WG is right with their current dislike of @charset.

Best regards,

Krzysztof Maczyński
Invited Expert, HTML WG

Received on Friday, 19 March 2010 13:49:51 UTC