Re: textured backgrounds

Joe English (joe@trystero.art.com)
Tue, 17 Jan 95 23:00:13 EST

"Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com> wrote:

> Here's my suggestions on how to express it, in decreasing order
> of how much I like it:
>
> #1 Using DSSSL and the <styles> element that Dave Ragget
> is cooking up.
> (ok... overkill for now...)
> #3 <body background="foo.xpm">...</body> or
> <body texture="foo.xpm">...</body>

#3 adds more presentation attributes to the DTD,
which I thought was a Bad Thing. (It also adds
more embedded URL attributes, which I also think
is a Bad Thing, but that's just my opinion.)

> #2 <?Netscape BACKGROUND-IMAGE="foo.xpm">
> #4 <LINK REL=BACKGROUND-IMAGE HREF="http://www.foo.com/allwhite.pbf">

Why don't you like <LINK> for this purpose?

--Joe