On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:21:43PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > There are more and more bug reports coming in of the form > > "Why are you doing X? You should be using CSS." > > 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. > > 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. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 The SCO Group fax: (831) 429-1887 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]