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Subject: Re: [docbook] strict versus transitional XHTML tables [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 18 Mar 2003]
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 00:22, Paul Grosso wrote: > We're comparing having an author write: > > <td role="glump"> > > versus > > <td bgcolor="green"> > > I'm amazed people are arguing that it makes more sense for > the author to do the former. The greatest struggle of previous years have been to encourage people to abondon horrible contructs like bgcolor within the semantic mark-up. The point of semantic mark-up is that it contains just semantics. If the W3C sees attributes like bgcolor as a bad accident, so could we. Even in XHTML it's disastrous. I usually write stylesheets for different media-types and it hardly ever occurs that I want to use the same colors in different media-types. With DocBoook this becomes a much stronger argument, since the very essence of DocBook to me is that I can convert it to as many output formats as I want, with the colors that I want because the system understands the semantics. How should my stylesheet know what to do with a bgcolor='green', when I'm converting to a black and white PDF? It shouldn't, since my stylesheets are the entities which I use for defining lay-out, not for interpretting it. - Rowan -- Don't fear fear.
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