On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/15/12 12:21 AM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: >> I agree with that sentiment. Green-colored text and strange fonts >> were popular when MySpace was popular. This is something from the >> past, not the present or future. >> >> The present and future require semantic elements (such as >> <blockquote/>) and attributes (such as those used by RDFa). > > I think that's right. So how about the following change... > > OLD > The use of structural elements is NOT RECOMMENDED where presentational > styles are desired, which is why very few structural elements are > specified herein. Implementations SHOULD use appropriate 'style' > attributes (e.g., <span style='font-weight: bold'>this is bold</span> > and <p style='margin-left: 5%'>this is indented</p>) rather than XHTML > structural elements (e.g., <strong/> and <blockquote/>) wherever possible. > > NEW > Where strictly presentational style are desired (e.g., colored text), > it might be necessary to use use 'style' attributes (e.g., <span > style='font-color: green'>this is green</span>). However, where > possible it is instead RECOMMENDED to use appropriate structural > elements (e.g., <strong/> and <blockquote/> instead of, say, > style='font-weight: bold' or style='margin-left: 5%').
As long as we're not changing the subset of tags allowed, this seems sensible to me. /K
