Really a browser doesn't understand what any of the tags are. What you see are only the browsers default behavior at rendering certain items it's aware of in the DTD. This was all put in by whoever made the browser, and is totally up to the browser. Default renderings are not specified in W3C. This is the forward view of browser-to-document relationships. All these default behaviors can be overridden by supplying your own rendering rules (css).
The old way is to code your markup to the browser default behavior, really we need to code and markup to the content, semantically, then use the tools we have to tell the browser how to render. I always found that the more I think in terms of the future and the way things are heading, it helps me make better decisions on what to do now. Ryan Nichols Graphic Design / Web Development Matrixwebs.com 1.800.711.2829 18330 Sutter Blvd. Morgan Hill, CA 95037 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 2:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Semantics of Breadcrumb "you are here" links Ryan Nichols wrote: > I think this is where Xhtml has it's (eventual) power. Since it's > extensible, you could use your own DTD, which has extra tags and > markup which contains the semantic meaning you need. Then via CSS and > javascript, you can alter/style the data anyway you need for the client. Maybe it's a bit too much of a "principle" idea, but...even if you can extend xhtml to include all sorts of your own vocabularies, this does not guarantee that the browser will actually *understand* them. They may present them, and maybe even make them available in the DOM as a separate node, but they may not know what they actually are. Yes, a very academic discussion, admittedly... Patrick H. Lauke _____________________________________________________ re*dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
