Re: [whatwg] Fallback styles for legacy user agents [was: Re: Deprecating small , b ?]

2008-11-30 Thread Calogero Alex Baldacchino
timeless ha scritto: i don't really want to spend a lot of time with this, but any feature authors are provided will be abused. among my list of things which i wish were never let out of pandora's box are defining accesskeys (instead of commands) in html, and another which i'd hope dies on the

Re: [whatwg] Fallback styles for legacy user agents [was: Re: Deprecating small , b ?]

2008-11-30 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
timeless wrote: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ultimately, a user agent or user can always reject presentational fluff. designing a user interface to enable users to tell their user agent to ignore such content ends up being more complicated and problematic than supporting the

Re: [whatwg] Fallback styles for legacy user agents [was: Re: Deprecating small , b ?]

2008-11-29 Thread timeless
i don't really want to spend a lot of time with this, but any feature authors are provided will be abused. among my list of things which i wish were never let out of pandora's box are defining accesskeys (instead of commands) in html, and another which i'd hope dies on the vine is aural css.

Re: [whatwg] Fallback styles for legacy user agents [was: Re: Deprecating small , b ?]

2008-11-28 Thread Calogero Alex Baldacchino
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis ha scritto: Calogero Alex Baldacchino wrote: That worked fine on Opera 9 and FF2, but, when tried on IE7, the show became a little weird... the element was there, the style attribute was regarded as for any other element (display:block worked), but didn't applied to any

Re: [whatwg] Fallback styles for legacy user agents [was: Re: Deprecating small , b ?]

2008-11-27 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Calogero Alex Baldacchino wrote: That worked fine on Opera 9 and FF2, but, when tried on IE7, the show became a little weird... the element was there, the style attribute was regarded as for any other element (display:block worked), but didn't applied to any of its descendents, as if they

Re: [whatwg] Fallback styles for legacy user agents [was: Re: Deprecating small , b ?]

2008-11-26 Thread Calogero Alex Baldacchino
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis ha scritto: Calogero Alex Baldacchino wrote: I know, and agree with the basic reasons; however I think that deriving an SGML version (i.e. by adding new entities and elements, as needed, to an html 4 dtd) should not be very difficoult, and could be worth the effort

[whatwg] Fallback styles for legacy user agents [was: Re: Deprecating small , b ?]

2008-11-25 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Calogero Alex Baldacchino wrote: I know, and agree with the basic reasons; however I think that deriving an SGML version (i.e. by adding new entities and elements, as needed, to an html 4 dtd) should not be very difficoult, and could be worth the effort (i.e. to graceful degrade the