On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:56:53PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes: > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 05:56:32PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote: > >> > I object to this ITP. Not very strongly, but I still object. > >> I think it's a wonderful idea to have a decss package in Debian. If > >> Debian cannot distribute the decss that allows Debian users to view DVD > >> movies (yet), then distributing this one is a good alternative, I'd say. > > You're clearly quite mad. Regardless of whether this script is trivial > > to implement, it's not something anyone should be encouraged to actually > > *use*. CSS is the *best* feature of the HTML4 standard. Why would > > anyone in their right mind wish to strip nearly all the logical > > structure markup out of a document? > *cough* > CSS is *not* the "logical structure markup" of a html document. The main > feature of HTML4/XHTML and CSS(|2|3) is the separation of structure and > design (as you said): HTML should be used to structure content in a > usable way (ie one can extract the given information from the document > in every environment, with or without a CSS-capable display software) > while CSS is used to create a wonderful world for salesdroids. In addition to removing style tags, the DeCSS script removes class and id attributes. Therefore, strictly speaking, not everything removed is CSS; and much of it is likely to be logical markup. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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