- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 16:29:31 +0200 (DST)
- To: gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol), knoblock@worldnet.att.net, www-style@w3.org
- Cc: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca, ngalarneau@concord6.powersoft.com
On Oct 8, 4:17pm, Gavin Nicol wrote: > ]someone said]: > >am I right to think > > > > <p class=copyright>text</p> > > > >is like saying > > > > <copyright>text</copyright> > > Quite correct. A point I've made for a *long* time... With the sole exception that, of course, an HTML 2.0 | 3.2 browser can do something vagely sensible with <p class=copyright> and <h2 class=chaptertitle> wheras it can do nothing much with <copyright> and <chaptertitle> except pretent the tags weren't there. It's a tradeoff; if you want a sprinkling of semantic hints and installed base compatibility, use class in text/html. If you want rich semantic markup and have no desire for widespread accessibility, use text/sgml (or application/sgml as appropriate). W3C is working to facilitate both approaches. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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