Re: color text?
wmperry@spry.com
Wed, 3 May 95 10:17:15 EDT
Joe English writes:
>
> wmperry@spry.com wrote:
>
> > This would be a good thing. The problem right now is that <style> is
> > restricted to the <head> of a document. emacs-w3 will gracefully switch
> > styles wherever it encounters the <style></style> container, but I don't
> > know about arena. If we recommend it as a 'Good Thing' to do, we should
> > definitely change the DTD to reflect this.
>
> I don't think it's necessarily a Good Thing...
> If you're going to allow:
>
> <style>h1: font.family=utopia</style>
> <h1>Blah</h1>
> ...
> <style>h1: font.family=times-roman</style>
> <h1>Blah</h1>
>
> why not just use
>
> <h1 font.family="utopia">Blah</h1>
> ...
> <h1 font.family="times-roman">Blah</h1>
>
> (other than ending up with gazillions of attributes, that is)?
>
> If style information is to be embedded in the document body,
> I feel it should at least be synchronous with the element structure.
> Changing style sheets "midstream" defeats this; they would
> act more like PIs.
This wasn't a conscious decision on my part. Just the way the parser and
the style sheet bindings interact. :) I could see the usefulness of
having well defined stylesheets for large <div> sections of a document,
but this can be equally well served with the CLASS attribute on <div> and
a single stylesheet.
-Bill P.