Monday, June 11, 2007, 10:06:41 AM, Hussein Shafie wrote: > Daniel Dekany wrote: >> In the default CSS you show the content html>head>title with huge >> letters and positioned to center, on the white "paper" background, >> with heading colors (brown). Like a super-h1. It's confusing because >> of the semantic of the title element; unlike h1 and like, the title is >> usually not meant to be "on the paper", it's rather a label, a >> meta-information attached to the document. So, I believe it should be >> rendered differently, like with normal size white bold letters, on >> blue background, or something like that. It suggests that it's usually >> a "window title". > > That's right... in the case of a Web browser.
The "window title" thing was just an example of course. The point is that the XHTML title element is not meant to be "on the paper". It's a semantical thing; the title element is to *identify* the contents of a document -- it's not part of the content. It's meta-info. It's not inside the body element. Look at some XHTML-s. The big nicely formatted title that you see at the top of XHTML pages is almost always a H1, and practically never the html>head>title. It's not its intended usage. With the default CSS, XXE 3.6.0 shows the title element in a way that doesn't reflect the meaning of it. >> It would be more helpful and more pleasing for almost most users, > > There is no way to be sure of that. But you must guess, as you have to write a CSS (and you did). And surely you shouldn't chose one of the less probable possibilities in the out-of-the-box CSS. >> I think, and it's surely no more than 5 minutes to >> fix. > > Our CSS style sheets cannot possibly please all XXE users. If you don't > like something in them, please change it yourself. With this logic you could render elements in whatever wildly absurd ways in the default CSS, like p-s with 24pt bold, and H1-s with 12 pt normal and what not, by saying that users can customize the CSS if they have other preferences. :) Now really, the less users have to customize the out-of-the-box CSS to be satisfied, the better your product is, right? > How to do that cleanly (that is, changes that survive XXE upgrades) > is explained here: > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/customizing.html -- Best regards, Daniel Dekany
