- From: (wrong string) äper <christoph.paeper@tu-clausthal.de>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:08:10 +0100
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
Daniel Glazman: > Mikko Rantalainen wrote: > >>> copy and paste preserving the style. >> >> You cannot copy and paste *content with the styling information only* >> if the target medium is sematic one, like (X)HTML. Period. A browser may use a meta language that's being used to copy text including the style it is currently being displayed in to clipboard etc. HTML/CSS is not capable of this and never will, because the styles can be inherited from *many* different places--they'll almost never be /all/ in one place like the style attribute. > You are telling me that we won't be able to produce wysiwyg authoring > tools for the new standard of the web just because it is not made for that ? Probably yes, why surprised? It has never been possible to create What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get-HTML-editors, just What-You-See-Is-What-You-*Might*-Get-HTML. At the most you see what you get, but not what everyone else gets. There's nothing wrong with /structure editors/ that also apply some styles. > If this is the goal of XHTML 2.0, then "XHTML 2.0 delenda est". Huh? There are different languages for different goals. There are e.g. tasks that can't be done with HTML, but perfectly with a different ML, PDF, SVG/Flash, *Script, PNG/JPEG/GIF... Christoph Päper
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