- From: David Seibert <seibert@hep.physics.mcgill.ca>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 16:15:19 -0500 (EST)
- To: Glenn Adams <glenn@stonehand.com>
- Cc: Bert Bos <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr>, www-style@w3.org
On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Glenn Adams wrote: > Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 19:56:00 +0100 > From: Bert Bos <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr> > > 2. No style properties in attributes (STYLE="...") > > The argument for (2) is that it leads to bad design. It may also be a > little bit less efficient for future sophisticated browsers. But some > people want this facility, so I guess we just have to accept this in > HTML. > > It seems to me that IETF WGs work on a consensus basis. I don't believe > there is a consensus on a STYLE attribute. Some people oppose it quite > strongly. Therefore, it should be removed. "Some people want this" doesn't > cut it! I agree with Glenn. Since the goal is to have HTML 3.0 be a "final" version, it makes sense to include facilities for any type-setting effect, no matter how few people want it. Thus, if allowing style properties in attributes was necessary to achieve some effect, then it would make sense to allow this no matter how many people didn't like it. However, this is not a necessity but only a convenience, since the same effect can also be obtained by pre-declaring elements of different classes, so there is no strong argument for allowing it. David Work: seibert@hep.physics.mcgill.ca Home: 6420 36th Ave. Physics Department, McGill University Montreal, PQ, H1T 2Z5 3600 Univ. St., Mtl., PQ, H3A 2T8, Canada Canada (514) 398-6496; FAX: (514) 398-3733 (514) 255-5965
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