The only other place I've used it is when I want to randomly generate a background-image or something, but that probably better doen with internal css
Alan Trick
Vlad Alexander (XStandard) wrote:
Hi Alan,
I just found you that the style attribute is depreciated
in xhtml 1.1. Does this mean that it will eventually be
obolete?
It depends on what you mean by "obolete". Deprecated means that it's part of the spec but the construct is outdated and its use is strongly discouraged. The next version of XHTML is 2.0 which won't get wide acceptance for 5 to 10 years. It's in Working Draft status. In it, the "style" is not flagged "deprecated" but that can change. Here is what the spec says:
Note: use of the style attribute is strongly discouraged in favor of the style element and external style sheets. In addition, content developers are advised to avoid use of the style attribute on content intended for use on small devices, since those devices may not support the use of in-line styles. Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-styleAttribute.html
If so, what do they expect us to do for inline
styles because it doesn't always make sense to have everything in an external style sheet.
Can you provide some example of how you want to use inline formatting?
Regards, -Vlad http://xstandard.com
Alan Trick wrote:
I just found you that the style attribute is depreciated in xhtml 1.1. Does this mean that it will eventually be obolete? If so, what do they expect us to do for inline styles because it doesn't always make sense to have everything in an external style sheet.
Alan Trick
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