- From: Ian Hickson <exxieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:37:22 -0000
- To: www-html@w3.org
Hi. This is my first post to www-html, I hope it does not break any rules... Ian Graham wrote: >Here are some comments/notes upon reading the HTML 4 Proposed >Recommendation of 7/November/1997, HTML Version. >2. The content model for INS/DEL is perplexing to me. As > I read the DTD, INS/DEL is allowed only within BODY, and > can contain %flow -- but this makes it impossible to use > INS/DEL within block or inline elements. If %inline were change > to include INS/DEL, then INS/DEL could go anywhere -- (not sure > about this, but it seems to make sense). Perhaps there is, on > the other hand, a good reason for the existing, restricted model? This may be an error in the DTD, as I read the spec INS and DEL can appear anywhere (section 9.4) >8. Section 7.5.3 -- Block and Inline Elements > Section 7.5.3 describes the difference between block and inline > formatting element types, but does not define the default > formatting types for the various BODY-content HTML elements (some > are obvious, some are not). I would expect this document to > define the default types, before noting that style sheets can > override the default values. CSS2 defines a proposed HTML4 style sheet, maybe this should be used to describe the recommended formatting (although not all table attributes, eg alignchar, can be defined by CSS) I am confused as to why TT, I, B, BIG and SMALL are not deprecated while most of the other formatting elements/attributes are. What makes them special? -- Ian Hickson -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT/M/S d- s+: a--- C++(+++)>$ U P L+ !E W++ N++ o? K? w++>+++ O- !M V- PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t 5+++>++++ X- R+++ tv b++(+++) DI D++ G e-(*)>+++++ h!()(--) y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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