Subject: Re: Formatting Objects considered harmful From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 14:03:45 +0200 (MET DST) |
Guy_Murphy wrote: > To my mind the author is propegating a dangerous misconception of his own. > > He is confusig data semantics with formatting semantics, The example he > gives is a very bad one... H1 may say a lot in terms of data semantic > (outside the HTML world even this is highly questionable, but I'll let that > dog sleep), but it says zero in terms of formatting semantic. What does H1 > bring to formatting? Nothing, I agree with you that HTML doesn't describe formatting -- that's why CSS was developed. What part of the paper [1] made you think otherwise? [1] http://www.operasoftware.com/people/howcome/1999/foch.html -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie http://www.operasoftware.com/people/howcome howcome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx simply a better browser XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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