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Re: Is it time to rely on CSS?
- From: Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>
- To: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:10:24 -0800
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Is it time to rely on CSS?
- References: <87smvnn0lk.fsf@nwalsh.com>
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:21:43PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
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> There are more and more bug reports coming in of the form
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> "Why are you doing X? You should be using CSS."
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> For example, <b> elements in figure titles, background color on
> tables, etc. Even the inline style markup in admonitions falls into
> this category as, if we relied on CSS, we'd expect an external
> stylesheet to apply that style.
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> Historically, the stylesheets have tried to walk some sort of a line
> between relying on CSS and getting reasonable results in browsers that
> don't support CSS.
>
> Is it time to move that line farther out, removing things that could
> be done with CSS and just expecting CSS to be used?
I think this is ok.
I'm concerned about the transition.
If we are expecting CSS to be used, would we supply a
basic CSS stylesheet that implements these changes and gives
people the framework for customizing?
Otherwise we will probably get complaints about
things that formerly worked being broken.
Also, I think we had better stick to CSS1. I've found CSS2
conformance to be very inconsistent among browsers.
Unfortunately, that's where the table stuff is.
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