Re: color text?
Lou Montulli (montulli@netscape.com)
Wed, 3 May 95 20:55:51 EDT
On May 3, 7:20pm, Luke wrote:
> Subject: Re: color text?
> On Wed, 3 May 1995, Lou Montulli wrote:
> >>><BODY font.family = helvetica; font.style = bold; font.color = #000>
> >>
> >>Please give me a list of all formatting attributes that will ever be
> >>needed.
> >
> >There is no need to. We can simply add to the list when needed.
> >This is exactly what you are planning to do with style sheets.
>
> This is bad for all existing SGML parsers. This is cleaner, imho:
> <BODY CLASS="body.text.attributes" VALUE= "font.family = ....">
> Overiding priority should be VALUE, <STYLE> stuff in <HEAD>, linked
> stylesheet document. (high->low).
>
> I am aware of some stupid size limits in SGML, but these are not
> fundamental problems and can be worked around easily.
>
This meets all of my goals:
* Style information capible of being external as well as being
interspersed throughout the document.
* Backwards compatible
* extensible
:lou
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