Re: the STYLE attribute

Joe English ([email protected])
Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:17:20 PST


Hakon Lie <[email protected]> wrote:

> Peter writes
> > How can we promulgate this? A STYLE attribute is a step BACKWARDS.
>
> Main argument against:
>
> - the STYLE attribute mixes presentational information into the
> structure of the docuement. This is just what style sheets try to
> avoid, and the attribute is therefore counter-productive.

I would think that a stronger argument against it
is that it would tie HTML to a single stylesheet notation.
Or is this stuff considered far enough past the ``experimental''
stage that supporting different notations is no longer an issue?

--Joe English

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