- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 17:39:09 -0400
- To: Joe English <joe@trystero.art.com>, www-html@www10.w3.org, www-style@www10.w3.org
At 11:22 AM 7/27/95 PDT, Joe English wrote: > >papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) wrote: > >> I think that it would be premature to standardize CLASSes until we see what >> people want to do with them. >> >> But Benjamin's concern is valid and common. Others are expressing it in >> various HTML forums. They want their CLASSed text to be visually >> differentiated ASAP. New browsers are coming out every month, but they are >> no closer to differentiating between CLASSes of text, because they are >> waiting for style sheets. > >Which is precisely the right thing to do, IMO. > >I believe that CLASSes should *never* be standardized >in the sense that you describe, i.e., such that a browser >would give elements special treatment based on CLASS >attribute values without an explicit instruction from >the author. When I said "differentiated" I meant just differentiated, not standardized. A browser could, for example, allow users (not necessarily authors) to change the display of certain element subclasses. This is obviously not as good as style sheets, however. Paul Prescod ---------------------------------------------------------- Paul Prescod (papresco@calum.uwaterloo.ca)
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