- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 10:48:42 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Rob wrote:
> Ok, so what about a <FILENAME> or <URL> element? That would be
> *very* useful IMO, since many authors (myself included) are using
> <TT> or <I> at the moment.
<snip>
> (Yes, StyleSheets are perfect for this, but not everyone uses a
> browser that supports them; looking at my logs I can see plenty of
> people are Using Netscape 2.0 and 3.0 and MSIE 2.0 and even Mosaic
> and Lynx)
To support <FILENAME> new browsers will have to be made. To support CSS,
nw browers have to be made. It would be pointless to create a <FILENAME>
element because if browers supported this, then they would also support
<SPAN CLASS=Filename>, which is a better solution.
--
Russell O'Connor | roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eroconnor/>
"And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message"
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