I think you missed the point, and I maybe already replied to this off-
list, the last time i clarified this.
The point was raised
Firstly, the chance of someone not being able to access the
CSS for a web
page is I'm guessing, pretty slim.
and all I was doing was pointing out that users may choose to apply
their own css (even if this is not widespread in use), or even
disable css altogether.
I don't doubt you do some elaborate and cool things with inline
styles, I have been known to use them myself, but it is my
understanding that conceptually, HTML is for content markup and CSS
for styling that markuped content. Maybe someone can correct me on
this, if I am incorrect.
Gareth
On 20 Mar 2007, at 22:08, ddailey wrote:
I sometimes enjoy the ability to clone images that have no src or
no width or no style. I certainly like to vary the height and width
attributes via setAttribute, and I might like, in the future, to be
able to attach an <animate> tag (ala SMIL) to the height or width
attribute of an <img>. If I had to do this through CSS, it would be
a minor setback.
<img src="hoopla" height="50" width="40" alt="oscillating image of
hoopla">
<animate attributeName="width" values="10;100;10" dur="4s"
repeatCount="indefinite">
</img>
DD
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Gareth Hay wrote:
If i'm not mistaken, the idea of separation of content and style
means you can use your own css, or even none at all, and still
have the ability to view the content.
If a page is dependent on the css, then, although in a separate
file, it is fundamentally not separate at all, and we might as
well just shove the css into the same html file anyway.
Gareth
On 16 Mar 2007, at 20:27, Benjamin West wrote:
On 3/16/07, Dean Edridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Firstly, the chance of someone not being able to access the
CSS for a web
page is I'm guessing, pretty slim.
<img style="height: 50px; width: 50px;" /> Why is accessing
CSS a problem?
-Ben West
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I never proposed that a web page should be dependant on CSS, nor
did I say that there shouldn't be a separation of content and
style. Quite the opposite.
I said that if there is no CSS available for an <img> tag, the
browser should just display the image the best it can(and they do
this quite well already, in my experience). And that this very
rare occasion of CSS failure does not warrant the mandatory
requirement of in-line styling of the <img> tag.
Dean Edridge
