Hello Tantek, Toby
Tantek Celik wrote:
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.
No Tantek and Toby you are misguided in your interpretation please cite
your sources ...
"This specification doesn't tie HTML to any particular style sheet
language. This allows for a range of such languages to be used, for
instance simple ones for the majority of users and much more complex
ones for the minority of users with highly specialized needs. The
examples included below all use the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
language [CSS1], but other style sheet languages would be possible."[1]
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/styles.html#h-14.1
Toby your answer is very well worded and would be a good start for a
"rejected-syntaxes" page.
http://microformats.org/wiki/rejected-syntaxes
No Toby don't this is a valid solution.
Best wishes
Martin McEvoy
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.)
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