- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:10:15 +0000
- To: CSS Style <www-style@w3.org>
On 24 Jan 2008, at 10:15, Dmitry Turin wrote: >>> I am fairly sure that the web designers of the time would have been >>> happy or even happier with just having more and more presentational >>> attributes piled onto HTML. > BK> As someone who typically hand-codes pages, I find such pages > BK> reprehensible and extremely difficult to edit. > Excuse me, for what are you editing these pages ? The usual case is: "Bob worked for Corporation. Bob wrote pages with presentational gubbins littered through the HTML. Bob left Corporation. I joined Corporation. I have to work on updating the site created by Bob." > BK> I for ... eventual elimination of tag soup (we can hope). > > Now next elimination of tag soup is harmfull > (because inconvenience for hand-coding) So use tools which highlight or automatically correct errors. > like current political correctness > (when it's impossible to name things by their names). Using names for things which some people might find offensive, and writing code for a machine to process which has errors in it are two things that are so far apart in concept, that comparing them is ridiculous. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/
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