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RE: New Working Draft : BECSS

From: Jelks Cabaniss <jelks@jelks.nu>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 01:29:37 -0400
To: <www-style@w3.org>
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Chris Wilson wrote:

> As many as makes sense.  Some authors will want to have their behavior
> separate from their style, others will consider it all part of the same
> presentation of their content.  CSS is about presentation, after all - and
> like it or not, event handling and interactivity is part of presentation.

Clicking the mouse = presentation???  I'd say that's stretching!  :)

> If it isn't, then we need to pull :hover, :active, :focus and :visited out
> of CSS.

That might not be a bad idea if they are replaced by another well-thought-out
mechanism.  Those are indeed "events", but they *don't* invoke scripts.

/Jelks
Received on Monday, 4 October 1999 01:31:13 UTC

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