- From: Chris Tilbury <C.J.Tilbury@estate.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 17:22:27 BST
- To: bsittler@prism.nmt.edu (Benjamin C. W. Sittler)
- Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org
On 7 Jul 95 at 10:07, Benjamin C. W. Sittler wrote: > At least in my opinion, there should probably be a few CLASSes of > some HTML elements with *suggested* renderings, like <NOTE > CLASS=WARNING>, <TABLE CLASS=2dpie>, etc. These would be > suggestions, not hard-wired defaults, and UA authors would be under > no compulsion to implement them. CLASS=WARNING conveys some indication about the information content of the element. CLASS=2dpie gives precisely no indication about the information content of the element; rather, it conveys information about the visual appearance (or what we'd like it to be, anyway) of the element, which is not what HTML is all about. Ciao, Chris -- Chris.Tilbury@estate.warwick.ac.uk; MIME Mail Welcome Tel: +44 1203 523523x2665, Fax: +44 1203 524444
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