- From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 18:22:17 +0000 (GMT)
- To: cwilso@microsoft.com (Chris Wilson)
- Cc: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca, www-style@w3.org, preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com, html-wg@oclc.org
Chris Wilson said: > 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. Yes. Why do you want the style to change at this point? In other words, I have been arguing that style changes for a reason. > >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? Since everyone else had failed to meet my request for a situation where style changes are made for no reason, I supplied one myself. The only case I could think of was those ransom notes made by cutting letters out of a nespaper. Each letter has a different font, size, and weight, for no reason at all. I do not consider this an important enough application that HTML should offer special support, though ;-) -- Chris Lilley, Technical Author and JISC representative to W3C +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Manchester and North Training & Education Centre ( MAN T&EC ) | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Computer Graphics Unit, Email: Chris.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk | | Manchester Computing Centre, Voice: +44 161 275 6045 | | Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. Fax: +44 161 275 6040 | | M13 9PL BioMOO: ChrisL | | Timezone: UTC URI: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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