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Re: Is it time to rely on CSS?
- From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso at arbortext dot com>
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:34:23 -0600
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Is it time to rely on CSS?
- References: <"from ndw"@nwalsh.com> <87smvnn0lk.fsf@nwalsh.com>
At 11:10 2003 01 20 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:21:43PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
>> There are more and more bug reports coming in of the form
>>
>> "Why are you doing X? You should be using CSS."
>>
>> For example, <b> elements in figure titles, background color on
>> tables, etc. Even the inline style markup in admonitions falls into
>> this category as, if we relied on CSS, we'd expect an external
>> stylesheet to apply that style.
>>
>> Historically, the stylesheets have tried to walk some sort of a line
>> between relying on CSS and getting reasonable results in browsers that
>> don't support CSS.
>>
>> Is it time to move that line farther out, removing things that could
>> be done with CSS and just expecting CSS to be used?
>
>I think this is ok.
>
>I'm concerned about the transition.
>If we are expecting CSS to be used, would we supply a
>basic CSS stylesheet that implements these changes and gives
>people the framework for customizing?
Bob seems to be inferring that Norm's message implies
a standalone stylesheet.
But CSS use can happen in three levels:
1. in the style attribute
2. in the <style> element
3. in a separate stylesheet.
There are extra problems with managing standalone stylesheets
(much as I appreciate the benefits of separating content and style).
I'm not sure what Norm's message was implying--Norm, can you
elaborate?
paul