- From: Chris Tilbury <C.J.Tilbury@estate.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 16:26:02 BST
- To: bsittler@prism.nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler), www-html@www10.w3.org
On 7 Jul 95 at 9:07, www-html@www10.w3.org wrote: > Perhaps tables could have a few CLASSes with suggested renderings, > i.e. 2dbar, pie, etc., similar to the <NOTE> element. These CLASSes > (and any others) of TABLE could, of course, use stylesheets to > affect the rendering as Chris Tilbury suggested. > > How does that sound? > Presumably, you mean something along the lines of <TABLE CLASS="2dpie"> ... </TABLE> ? The only potential problem with this is that the CLASS attribute, is by nature fairly undefined - there are no "classes" as such, although you could certainly suggest them. Having an arbitrary class to define the "instance" of the table in question, viz <TABLE CLASS="FirstTableInThisDocument"> ... </TABLE> ... <TABLE CLASS="SecondTableInThisDocument"> ... </TABLE> ... <TABLE CLASS="ThirdTableInThisDocument"> ... </TABLE> referring to that instance, viz TABLE.FirstTableInThisDocument : renderstyle.type = 2dbar TABLE.SecondTableInThisDocument : renderstyle.type = 3dpie TABLE.ThirdTableInThisDocument : renderstyle.type = scatter and defining the set of legal values for renderstyle.type, is probably a safer bet than trying to enforce a list of table "classes" (since the CLASS attribute only has arbitrary values, not enforced ones) to all have a certain suggested rendering. Ciao, Chris -- Chris.Tilbury@estate.warwick.ac.uk; MIME Mail Welcome Tel: +44 1203 523523x2665, Fax: +44 1203 524444
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