I agree with Toby's assessment. In addition to violating the semantic (presentation vs data) of the style attribute, web designers still very often use the style attribute for spot styling which implies/requires that the default styling language be CSS.
Toby your answer is very well worded and would be a good start for a "rejected-syntaxes" page. http://microformats.org/wiki/rejected-syntaxes Thanks, Tantek -----Original Message----- From: Toby A Inkster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:27:02 To: <[email protected]> Subject: [uf-discuss] ISO Dates and Durations using Style > If any style sheet language can be used, why don't microformats create > their own style language eg: > <span class="bday" style="bday.1968-01-04">4th Jan, 1968</span> By definition, the contents of the style attribute must be in "the default style sheet language". The default style sheet language is by definition CSS unless a Content-Style-Type header (either HTTP header or <meta http-equiv>) is present. There can only be one default style sheet language per document, thus any document which wants to use a non-CSS style sheet language in the style attribute cannot use CSS in the style attribute. (That is, you can't use CSS in some style attributes and non-CSS on others.) -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk> _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
