- From: Abigail <abigail@tungsten.gn.iaf.nl>
- Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 02:02:44 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
MegaZone wrote: ++ ++ Once upon a time James K. Tauber shaped the electrons to say... ++ >You'd need a DIV for each subsection of your FAQ. What's wrong with ++ >that? It makes perfect sense to me. Maybe I misunderstand what you mean ++ ++ What does it buy me? ++ ++ I'm serious - assume I want every section to use the same styles so I'm ++ not using DIV to indicate classes or anything. ++ ++ <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>b</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><DIV><H1>some text</H1><DIV> ++ <H2>section</H2><P>First Paragraph</P><DIV><H2>Another section</H2><P>Another ++ Paragraph</P></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML> Actually, you got that wrong. It should be: <HTML><HEAD><TITLE> </TITLE></HEAD> <BODY><DIV><H1> </H1><DIV><H2> </H2><P> </P></DIV><DIV><H2> </H2><P> </P></DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ++ What will this do for me - other than reduce readability of the document ++ and drive me crazy when I do markup trying to keep track of DIVs? This ++ is like programming LISP/SCHEME and keeping track of Parens! (I hate those ++ languages...) That's why there are HTML editors, programable all-purpose editors, validatores and Perl/Python/Tcl/Rexx/m4/.... ++ I don't see the advantage to this, what am I missing? More structure in the document. ++ What happens when we get Divs nested 6 deep? Have you seen H6 lately? On ++ Netscape it is almost unreadable it is so small. And I can see more than ++ 6 deep nesting on some docs I have. That is strange. Why would you have more than 6 deep nesting of <div>s, but no use for <h6>s? (I assume you don't use them now). I would say, if you now use <h4>, you end up with 4 deep nesting of <div>s in this proposal. ++ >But I still don't understand your problem with restrictive DIVs. If you ++ >are marking up a *structured* document, they would be a dream come true. ++ ++ And what about when I'm just tossing up a personal page that rambles on ++ and doesn't have a rigid structure? Then you would use the tag soup as 98% of the current documents already are made from. I don't think Netscape would suddenly refuse to render those documents. Abigail -- <URL: http://www.edbo.com/abigail/>
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