- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 08:50:42 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-style@w3.org
> Then they must not let you use HTML content. I'll have to try using > text. I would use XHTML for this but Internet Explorer does not let you > use object. Getting rather off topic, but any browser that doesn't handle object properly, which is an appropriate vehicle for inserting HTML content, is hardly likely to handle external HTML content in CSS, which seems unlikely to be a reasonable use of CSS. Remember that HTML is designed to convey the information content, whereas CSS is designed to convey appearance, that may reinforce the information content, but should not carry information not present in the HTML. Trying to introduce addtional HTML via CSS appears, to me, to be trying to use CSS for information and therefore an inappropriate use of CSS. In particular, CSS is not an appropriate technique for server side including menu bars - if you want that, you will have to hope that validating XML browsers become common, so that you can use entities, or use object, and hope that gets taken seriously as more than a vehicle for ActiveX and Java.
Received on Saturday, 29 March 2003 03:50:46 UTC