- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:30:58 +0100
- To: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Cc: W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>
Christoph Päper wrote:
> | The CSS regions module is independent of the layout of regions
> | and the mechanism used to create them.
>
> This module absolutetly should specify a means to generate stylable
> regions without additional markup. Whether it is an at-rule or a
> pseudo-element is debatable. I prefer ‘@region’, though.
Yes, regions -- which by definition are only there for styling
purposes -- should be specified in a style language.
> | However, for simplicity, our example uses elements as regions …
>
> That would be setting a bad example. Regions should come from the
> box tree, not from the node tree.
Indeed. HTML is inappropriate for this.
Further, using HTML elements makes it harder, if not impossible, to
have auto-generation of regions. Auto-generation is essential to
reusable style sheets, user-specified font sizes and other long-held
CSS principles.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Tuesday, 20 December 2011 22:31:44 UTC