Re: the STYLE attribute

At 3:25p 11/12/95, Benjamin C. W. Sittler wrote:
>On Sun, 12 Nov 1995, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
>...
>> <HEAD>
>> <TITLE>Walter's Styles Mini-Proposal</TITLE>
>>    <STYLE NOTATION="x-wik" SRC="internal" PRIORITY=2>
>>    <!-- style sheet embedded into document (only if src="internal") -->
>>       (subhead.main: FONT=helvetica; SIZE=18; TYPESTYLE=Bold)
>>       (small.caps: FONT=helvetica; SMALLCAPS=0.7)
>>       (body.text: FONT=Times; SIZE=14; TYPESTYLE=Plain)
>>    </STYLE>
>> </HEAD>
>> <BODY>
>>    <P STYLE="small.caps">This Would Be Small Caps In Helvetica</P>
>>    <P STYLE="body.text">This would be in Times Roman font</P>
>> </BODY>
>>
>> STYLE as an element (in <HEAD> only) would provide the user agent with the
>> stylesheet itself (whether embedded/internal or external), while STYLE as
>> an attribute (in <BODY> only) would reference specific stylenames.
>...
>
>I like this suggestion, but why not use CLASS instead of STYLE?

While CLASS would be "usable", it is not the least bit intuitive.

  Body is BODY
  Paragraph is P
  Style is.....CLASS?  No, I don't think so. Please no.


-Walter

Received on Sunday, 12 November 1995 18:15:06 UTC