Re: Scoped style sheets.

Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> 
> David Woolley wrote:
>> (One thing that concerns me about the whole use case is that it is 
>> based on embedding what are really separete resources, for reasons 
>> that have to do with ensuring that advertisements are seen, not to do 
>> with the natural structure of the information.  However the want to 
>> meet commercial constraints is so endemic these days, that I don't 
>> think I'd win such an argument amongst implementors.  The real 
>> solution would be to make object work!)
> 
> Commercial cases like that aren't the only use cases for scoped 
> stylesheets.  Consider this use case.
> 
> A blog has a normal theme applied to all articles that covers the 
> general styling issues quite well.  But then the author publishes an 
> article that requires some additional enhancements to be made, but the 
> author wants to avoid inadvertently affecting the style of other articles.
> 
> Adding more rules to the site's global stylesheet, perhaps scoped by 
> some unique article ID isn't really ideal because if it happens 
> frequently, it causes the global stylesheet to be filled with lots of 
> article specific styles.  In some cases, the article author may not even 
> have access to modify the global stylesheet.

That is:

> 
> The solution needs to work in all places where the article is listed, 
> including on its individual page or in a monthly archive listing.  The 
> scoped stylesheet allows the author associate the set of styles with the 
> article.
> 

the whole point.

I have my article that is html fragment. This article is also 
accompanied by styles. I want to be able to define styles
that are "rooted" to the article container. Such styles
has to be independent from the position of my article on
different sites.

-- 
Andrew Fedoniouk.

http://terrainformatica.com

Received on Wednesday, 16 July 2008 02:39:36 UTC