- From: David Seibert <seibert@hep.physics.mcgill.ca>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 12:21:37 -0500 (EST)
- To: "Chris Wilson (PSD)" <cwilso@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, "preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com" <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>, "html-wg@oclc.org" <html-wg@oclc.org>
On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Chris Wilson (PSD) wrote: > Chris Lilley wrote: > >If it is affected for no reason .... then why on earth should HTML be > extended > >to cope with formatting changes that occur for no reason? > > I believe he meant content- or document structure-based reason. Obviously, > there is a reason - you want the style to change at that point. Does anyone have an example of a reason for any style that is *not* based on either the content or the document structure, besides Chris Lilley's example of ransom note (see below). I certainly can't think of one - why emphasize a certain piece of text if the content of that particular piece isn't particularly important, unless it helps to clarify the document structure? > >Lets be clear here: a change to HTML hs been proposed so it can > >do *ransom notes* ? Given the goals of HTML this is clearly nonsense. > > Where did "ransom notes" come from? Let's try to keep the discussion on > track... "Ransom notes" makes perfect sense to me - when you write a ransom note, you want to randomize your style to make it hard to identify the author. Think of the visual cliche: the ransom note that is written by cutting individual words (or letters) out of a large collection of magazines and newspapers, and then pasting them onto a sheet of paper. Do you want to encourage people to write html like that? 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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