Re: Font Style Elements

Ian Hickson wrote:

<snip>

> semantic. The style information can always be split from the markup,
> because it is not part of it. (This is one of the many reasons [1] that
> the style attribute itself is unnecessary.)
> 
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2003Jan/0277.html
> 

Again, Ian... not necessarily true.  In a "node viewer"  application, it 
might OFTEN be desireable that the style travel with the node. 
Handing-around and viewing the node would be SO much easier if one need 
not worry about making sure that a LINK to the stylesheet, or an 
in-document STYLE element... is available at the time of node viewing, 
or when transcluding a new document together.  In fact, I predict that 
MOST transcluded documents (made from pieces & parts of other documents) 
WILL have style attributes in the nodes... instead of trying to 
translate stylesheets or style tags from many sources... into the new 
transcluded document.  Finding/extracting rules found in stylesheets, 
and rules in style elements... and converting them to style attribute 
strings... will become a common function of "node harvesting".  Just my 
opinion.

Wingnut

Received on Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:08:53 UTC