Hi Alan, Both <span class="red"> and <span style="color:#f00"> are "bad". How about BBtags this:
[important] [highlight] [note] [misc] then you use this markup: <em class="important"> <em class="hightlight"> .. Regards, -Vlad http://xstandard.com Alan Trick wrote: > I'm implementing some BBtag-like things on my webste though, and it > semes to make more sense to have something like [red] create a <span > style='color:#f00'></span> instead of a <span class='red'></span> and > have a whole bunch of unnecesary styles, and if I want to allow > something like [span style='color:#123'], that is quite difficult to do > via classes and external/internal css. > 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 part of the spec but the construct is outdated and its use is strongly 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 >>> > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
