Content based, yes. Exclusively content-pure, no.
>If so, (referring to Joe English's message about the new HTML 3
>features being supported), why does HTML 3 seem to be tending toward
>the presentation-specifying `model'? I can't see how the <center>
>tag is part of a content-based document, or how
Joe wasn't discussing the <center> tag. He was discussing the ALIGN
attribute. There is a big difference. You have to work pretty hard to use
the ALIGN attribute in a way that obscures the structure of a document.
>> <UL SRC="greenball.gif">
>is either. To me, these just seem like pure presentation `niceties'.
That is exactly right. They are presentation niceties that encourage people
to use the proper HTML elements instead of throwing them away. You have to
trade-off purity vs. ease of use. It shouldn't be a pain in the butt to
influence the "bullets" used in your list. Otherwise people will use a
definition list element to represent an unordered list and use an image as
the "definition term."
Paul Prescod
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Paul Prescod (mailto:papresco@calum.uwaterloo.ca)