- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:57:19 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
Bjoern Hoehrmann writes: > * Bert Bos wrote: > >> [...] > >> For HTML documents, however, we recommend that authors specify the > >> background for the BODY element rather than the HTML element. > >> [...] > >> > >> Why? Does this also apply to XHTML documents? > > > >Tradition of the BODY BGCOLOR attribute. > > > >Good question. Since XHTML (at least from 2.0 onwards) is supposed to > >be an examplary XML-based format, with as little semantics as possible > >that is not derived from other specifications (CSS, XLink, etc.), and > >since XHTML doesn't have a BGCOLOR attribute anyway, I guess we can > >remove the special treatment of BODY in the case of XHTML. > > Hence the user agent has to decide how to treat something HTML-special > depending on the MIME type of the document retrieved, i.e. text/html => > treat it as HTML, application/xhtml+xml or some other XML media type, > don't treat it special? Yes (or on the file extension, Macintosh file code, etc., in the case of local files). Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos/ W3C/INRIA bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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