Re: Floats, books and regions

On Monday 2014-01-27 07:25 +0100, Daniel Glazman wrote:
> On 27/01/14 03:49, L. David Baron wrote:
> 
> > Using CSS to create a table of contents seems to me to be using CSS
> > on the wrong side of the barrier between content and presentation; a
> > table of contents is a part of the content presented to the user and
> > should be in the content in the markup, not merely something brought
> > into existence by the presentation.
> 
> No. I have numerous examples dating to P language and DSSSL at the
> beginning of the '90s where a table of contents is just another
> stylesheet applied to the document. That's why we originally wanted
> multiple views per document. To generate a table of contents, you
> basically have to apply |display:none| to elements not h1...h6 nor
> descendants of such header elements.

Just because it has been done with style sheets in some systems
doesn't mean that fits with the architecture of the *Web*.

-David

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