- From: Jelks Cabaniss <jelks@jelks.nu>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:30:53 -0400
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
> The www-style past suggestions list has been updated ...
> http://www.bath.ac.uk/%7Epy8ieh/internet/wwwstyle.html
Great page, Ian!
I would like to contribute one suggestion: named styles -- just like in MS Word,
Pagemaker, etc.
In HTML 4, we can use CLASS (or ID) attributes. However, those imply semantics.
But with something like
<span class="pretty">...</span>
we're obviously interested in stylistic effect, not using the class for
semantics.
If, however, we do somthing like
@name(pretty)
font: 117% italic foofoo, fantasy;
/* umpteen other styles omitted */
}
then
<span style="@named(pretty)">...</span>
the intention is obvious.
I'm not sure how this would apply to XML (I'm not even sure it's intended that
XML have inline styles -- indeed, how would such a thing even work?). But even
in the XML world, inside linked stylesheets you could "inherit" them:
@name(outlandish) { @named(pretty); @named(humongous); }
The concept of named styles, with all the word processors and other apps using
them, seems so obvious that I'm sure it's been discussed before. ???
/Jelks
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