- From: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 21:35:42 +0200
- To: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Orion Adrian wrote:
>>Hear hear ^_^.
>>
>>I entirely agree. And I think it would be more constructive if we took
>>the discussion towards improving what is still lacking in the existing
>>model.
>>
>>
>How so? Why not move in a direction that would increase what you could
>do with the system and not just how it looks?
>
>
There is a standardised role="navigation" attribute in XHTML 2.0
(alongside ‘main’, ‘secondary’, ‘banner’ and more, a list which will
likely expand before it is finished) which specifies the role of a
section in a document, and you can perfectly well select on that with
*[role=navigation] { position: whatever }.
As long as page authors use those role attributes (which I think they
will), you can write a user style sheet which overrides any page layout
on those sections, and position everything exactly how you want it.
>Separation of layout and formatting and separation of content from
>interface improves gives you capabilities you simply can't have with
>them together.
>
I *really* don’t see which additional capabilities that gives. It is
just syntax.
>Why are people so against the split?
>
>
Because it’s pointless and because inventing a new language for every
‘problem’ is not a solution.
~Grauw
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Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san!!
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Laurens Holst, student, university of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Website: www.grauw.nl. Backbase employee; www.backbase.com.
Received on Wednesday, 6 July 2005 19:35:45 UTC