Re: Proposed Text Flow Attributes for HTML 3.0

At 12:18 PM 8/21/95 -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>Just something to think about.  I thing my text flow attribs fall under
>the same level of significance as some of the above tags. (ALIGN, WRAP, etc.)

These are convenience attributes.  When there become too many of them, HTML
becomes a big, complex language and that's inconvenient.  I would argue that
there are already too many of them, and that they continually confuse and
mislead people.

I don't think that there is an SGML-compatible way to specify an extension
interface for attributes.  Otherwise we could take them out of the HTML
standard and treat them as a "standardized formatting extension."  It would
at least be clear to people that they were _not_ like the other parts of HTML.

 Paul Prescod

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Paul Prescod (mailto:papresco@calum.uwaterloo.ca)

Received on Monday, 21 August 1995 17:21:17 UTC