- From: Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 16:53:14 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
- Cc: "Joshua Prowse" <prowsej@fastmail.fm>
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:04:09 -0400, you wrote: >What reason is there for restricting the style tag to the head of the document? >Why not allow it anywhere in the document so that <style> tags that are placed >lower override earlier ones? For HTML it should not even have been allowed in the HEAD element. A STYLE element "pollutes" a document instance with a lot of CDATA content that is absolutely best placed elsewhere. As it seems now, we do have a single chance to come up with a totally clean definition of structural markup as in XHTML2, lets not blow that chance to finally separate document structure from presentational suggestions. I for one have decided to participate in the XHTML2 definition process (constructively this time, you will all be amazed with what I can do when I put that side of me to it :) and one of my first suggestions will be to eliminate the STYLE element all together from the specs. Presentational suggestions shall be used by reference only, not through direct inclusion. Which further leads me to say that what you originally asked for can easily be achieved with LINK'ed stylesheets and a proper use of the CSS cascade rules. -- Rex
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