RE: [WSG] hr / or CSS3 Border Background

2009-08-10 Thread Chris Taylor
Hi, tee said: However, seeing that HTML 5 has given hr tag a new purpose: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-hr-element http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#flow-content-0 quote: The hr element represents a paragraph-level thematic break, e.g. a scene change in a story,

Re: [WSG] hr / or CSS3 Border Background

2009-08-10 Thread David Hucklesby
Chris Taylor wrote: Hi, tee said: However, seeing that HTML 5 has given hr tag a new purpose: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-hr-element http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#flow-content-0 quote: The hr element represents a paragraph-level thematic break, e.g. a scene

Re: [WSG] hr / or CSS3 Border Background

2009-08-09 Thread David Dorward
On 9 Aug 2009, at 03:53, tee wrote: Then my question, what about those who prefer to stick with XHTML? By Stick with XHTML do you mean not to move to an unstable, draft markup language? Plenty of people are happily writing HTML 4.01 and avoiding the pain of Appendix C. The hr tag is

Re: [WSG] hr / or CSS3 Border Background

2009-08-09 Thread Ben Buchanan
After reading the following article, I ask which is more semantic, using the hr / element with a background or using the CSS3 border background property? Well... markup has semantics/semantic meaning, CSS is style applied over the top but is not part of the document's content. Applying the

Re: [WSG] hr / or CSS3 Border Background

2009-08-09 Thread tee
On Aug 9, 2009, at 1:36 AM, David Dorward wrote: On 9 Aug 2009, at 03:53, tee wrote: Then my question, what about those who prefer to stick with XHTML? By Stick with XHTML do you mean not to move to an unstable, draft markup language? Plenty of people are happily writing HTML 4.01 and

Re: [WSG] hr / or CSS3 Border Background

2009-08-09 Thread Stuart Foulstone
On Sun, August 9, 2009 3:53 am, tee wrote: ... However, seeing that HTML 5 has given hr tag a new purpose: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-hr-element http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#flow-content-0 quote: The hr element represents a paragraph-level thematic

Re: [WSG] hr / or CSS3 Border Background

2009-08-09 Thread David Dorward
On 9 Aug 2009, at 10:38, tee wrote: On Aug 9, 2009, at 1:36 AM, David Dorward wrote: On 9 Aug 2009, at 03:53, tee wrote: Then my question, what about those who prefer to stick with XHTML? By Stick with XHTML do you mean not to move to an unstable, draft markup language? Plenty of

Re: [WSG] hr / or CSS3 Border Background

2009-08-09 Thread David Dorward
Sorry, I missed this bit when I last responded. On 9 Aug 2009, at 10:38, tee wrote: Which specification deprecated it? This is what I learned: All presentation attributes of the hr element were deprecated in HTML 4.01 Deprecating some attributes on an element does not deprecate the

Re: [WSG] hr / or CSS3 Border Background

2009-08-08 Thread tee
On Aug 8, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Bushidodeep wrote: Hi, After reading the following article, I ask which is more semantic, using the hr / element with a background or using the CSS3 border background property? C

Re: [WSG] hr / or CSS3 Border Background

2009-08-08 Thread dwain
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Bushidodeep field.ni...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, After reading the following article, I ask which is more semantic, using the hr / element with a background or using the CSS3 border background property? C

Re: [WSG] hr / or CSS3 Border Background

2009-08-08 Thread Bushidodeep
Hi, Thanks, SMASH has some good contributions. As with any resource, absorb what is useful, reject the useless. Does any DOM conditional exist for checking CSS3 support in user agents? C On Aug 8, 2009, at 7:53 PM, tee wrote: On Aug 8, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Bushidodeep wrote: Hi,