- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:27:24 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Chris Wilson <cwilso@microsoft.com>
- cc: "'L. David Baron'" <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>, www-html@w3.org, dsr@w3.org, ij@w3.org, lehors@w3.org
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Chris Wilson wrote: >>> ...there are a VERY large number of documents that include more >>> than one STYLE element. >> Yes, but how many of them have TITLE attributes? That's the only >> question relevant to analyzing Ian's proposal. I would guess almost >> none, since currently the TITLE attribute doesn't "do" anything. > What a waste. You have a variety of choices for how to implement > this functionality in a way that does not break backward > compatibility - in fact, I gave you a way to do so that I chose two > years ago explicitly so that it would not cause this problem - [...] Hang on -- the suggestion you gave does _not_ have this functionality. I am suggesting emulating the behaviour of the _title_ attribute. I am NOT looking for a way to hook things into scripting -- I am looking for a way to introduce multiple alternate, named stylesheets. For example, my proposal allows you to supplement different alternate stylesheets with embedded stylesheet styles: <!-- first, link in to four different alternate stylesheets: --> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="style1.css" title="a"> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="style2.css" title="b"> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="style3.css" title="c"> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="style4.css" title="d"> <!-- next, add special style relevant only to this page for each of the alternate stylesheets --> <style type="text/css" title="a"> ... </style> <style type="text/css" title="b"> ... </style> <style type="text/css" title="c"> ... </style> <style type="text/css" title="d"> ... </style> <!-- next, add an alternative style specific to this page --> <style type="text/css" title="e"> ... </style> How does your proposal even come _close_ to supporting this? -- Ian Hickson "So far, people have shown a reasonable amount of sense in evaluating souls (whether they are properly priced)." -- Nick Gibbins; Author of http://totl.net/Soul/, 1999-10-05
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