- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:31:39 +0200
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Craig Francis <craig@synergycms.com>, Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo <amla70@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:15:01 +0200, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com> > wrote: >> Also sprach Craig Francis: >> The style element, when scoped to its parent, will be able to do this >> -- and more -- but it is more verbose. > > The problem with the style= attribute, as opposed to the <style> > element. Is that it encourages media specific style sheets. As the media > for the style= attribute is automatically "all". It also does not allow > for alternate style sheets. The <style> element in HTML5 handles both. > Having said that, I don't really care strongly either way. These are good things to explain; but IMHO no reasons to deprecate it. >> Finally, there's much content out there that uses the 'style' >> attribute and the cost of keeping it is lower than the cost of >> removing it. > > User agents will be required to support it. In which case it doesn't make any sense to deprecate it when it was allowed before. Best regards, Julian
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