Re: Conversion of HTML attributes to CSS2 properties

Frank Boumphrey vehemently wrote:


>>"The UA may choose to honor presentational hints from other sources than
>>style sheets, for example the FONT element or the "align" attribute in
>HTML.
>>If so, the non-CSS presentational hints must be translated to the
>>corresponding CSS rules with specificity equal to zero. The rules are
>>assumed to be at the start of the author style sheet and may be overridden
>>by subsequent style sheet rules."
>
>What this gibberish basically means is that a user agent can choose to
>display styling type tags provided there is no conflicting CSS rule!!

Close. How about: "A user agent may display HTML element styling attributes,
such as 'align', 'color', and 'face', provided there are no conflicting CSS
rules in the author stylesheet." ?

>The rest is semantics!!

I believe that's semantically incorrect. The rest is *gobbledygook*.
Semantics is what remains when the gibberish and gobbledygook are
exclusively-ORed.

David Perrell

Received on Friday, 7 August 1998 01:24:01 UTC