Re: XHTML 2.0 considered harmful

fantasai wrote:

>> I still repeat that I'm not against keeping the style attribute per 
>> se, but I'm against keeping it without a good reason. And I haven't 
>> seen such a reason yet.
>>
>> Research report (only a few latest posts)
>> -----------------------------------------
>>
>> Glazman said that id + CSS had some issue with namespaces. No further 
>> explanation provided.
>
>
> He means, I think, that once you use an ID or a class to associate
> style with an element, you cannot re-use that ID or class for a
> different purpose. 


Exactly.
Mikko: I am not 24 hours per day behind my mail user agent.

> Daniel Glazman wrote:
> > copy and paste preserving the style.
>
> Such logic would only make sense if you try use HTML as the back
> end format of a full-featured word processor instead of a full-
> featured markup editor. 


Not at all.
Mozilla Composer and Outlook are not full-featured word processors but 
web content editors and, believe me, they want to copy and paste styles 
with the content.

</Daniel>

Received on Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:26:47 UTC