- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:43:31 -0700
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com> wrote: > Also sprach Tab Atkins Jr.: > > > > BTW, while I have your attention, the CSSWG's suggestion from the Oslo > > > F2F to use HTML's alternate style mechanism to address vertical vs. > > > horizontal styles has *already* been accepted by EPUB as the way forward > > > for addressing alternate style requirements. So let's please focus the > > > discussion on use cases that cannot be solved by this mechanism. [2] > > [2] http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/style/specs/altss-tags/ > > > Hm, okay. That's definitely the solution that requires the least work > > from us, so I guess it's cool if EPUB likes it. This also seems to be > > basically what Hakon was wanting, right? > > Right! The solution uses the class attribute in a clever way: > > <link rel="stylesheet" href="horizontal.css" class="horizontal"/> > <link rel="alternate stylesheet" href="vertical.css" class="vertical"/> > > So, what are the use cases that cannot be solved by this method? None, I believe; this is a fully general solution. Other solutions may just be easier/terser/more elegant in some aspects. But like I said, I'm definitely willing to live with this if EPUB is okay with it. ~TJ
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