Re: html 4.0 validation for the site.
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 06:06:29PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
> James A. Treacy:
>
> > Part of the problem here is the html spec itself. It is sometimes
> > difficult to do what you want in a compliant way.
>
> HTML is not supposed to be used for design, that's why CSS was
> invented.
>
For a long time, that was all that was available.
> > For example, it is often difficult to say 'I want a little vertical
> > space here, damnit!' without breaking the rules.
>
> P { margin-top: 2em; }
>
> Simple.
>
If we change to using CSS...
> > So we need to make a decision: do we claim compliance (and make the
> > pages compliant) or do we drop the claim of compliance?
>
> I see no reason not to use conforming HTML.
>
So, you are advocating we switch to using CSS. If so, say it instead
of us having circular arguments.
What are the drawbacks to using CSS? Do all browsers support it?
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James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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