| >What has CD-ROM-ness got to do with anything? It shouldn't change the
| >interpretation of STYLE="{font.size: 14}" that I can think of.
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| How about screen resolution then. 14 point may look big on an SVGA,
| and be unreadable on my display. That is the whole point of
| separation. By removing the platform-specific data out of the content,
| the content become immune to changes in the presentation environment.
---It's *slightly* easier to adjust the entries in the stylesheet than in the document, but not significantly. It would, after all, be trivial to create a stylesheet from entries in the document by walking the tree and generating identifiers for the styles and IDs for the elements they are attached to.
--- | | >Because, as a potential consumer of the product, it "feels wrong" to me. | >Stylesheets feel right, but the inability to put information locally, | >when appropriate, feels wrong. Intuition, based on experience, tells | >me I will want to put my fingers where your restriction says I can't... | | You will loose in the long run. I would suggest that if you *really* | want to put style information directly into the document, you should | probably be lobbying browser writers to support RTF (or perhaps | Rainbow ;-)).---I want to be able to *occasionally* annotate an element directly. I'd say it's significantly better than 50:50 that, whatever HTML-WG decides, some vendors will add a STYLE attribute anyway.
scott
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