> Chris Lilley wrote:
> >If it is affected for no reason .... then why on earth should HTML be
> extended
> >to cope with formatting changes that occur for no reason?
>
> I believe he meant content- or document structure-based reason. Obviously,
> there is a reason - you want the style to change at that point.
Yes. Why do you want the style to change at this point? In other words,
I have been arguing that style changes for a reason.
> >Lets be clear here: a change to HTML hs been proposed so it can
> >do *ransom notes* ? Given the goals of HTML this is clearly nonsense.
>
> Where did "ransom notes" come from?
Since everyone else had failed to meet my request for a situation where
style changes are made for no reason, I supplied one myself. The only case
I could think of was those ransom notes made by cutting letters out of
a nespaper. Each letter has a different font, size, and weight, for no
reason at all.
I do not consider this an important enough application that HTML should
offer special support, though ;-)
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