- From: Francois Yergeau <FYergeau@alis.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:15:23 -0400
- To: "'Bert Bos'" <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr>, www-international@w3.org
Bert Bos wrote: > But if you can't > put the language-dependent aspects of a document in the style > sheet, where *can* you put them? You should be able to put them with the actual language, in the document itself. I don't really disagree with most of your points, but I couldn't resist nailing that one. Practically speaking, it's true that CSS is not sufficiently internationalized to create completely language-independent style sheets. And it's not necessarily a failure of CSS, there are aspects -- such as bold being inappropriate in some scripts that you mention -- that would make it akward at best. But for 'left/right' vs 'start/end' (not 'before/after'), I take sides with the WD: using the less language-dependent ones makes the style sheet easier to localize, even though it cannot be made fully language-independent in practice. > the titles are images in the style sheet and thus the > translations disappear; And that is supposed to be good practice? -- François
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