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Re: Which HTML to use?
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Mon, 5 May 2003 20:15:42 GMT
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"Constantine Hannaher" <channaher@netscape.net> writes:
Now I know you are writing quickly and upon reflection will recognize that
putting a class on a font tag is just a bizarre idea. :-) Although <div
id="postheaders"><h1>foo</h1></div> where an external stylesheet has a
declaration .postheaders h1 {font-size: 0.8ex;} might look a little long, it
puts the burden of figuring out how to display on the rendering engine of
the user agent. I should probably have set the follow-up to publish.html...

OK I moved this part of the thread there...

Why not just use <h1 class="postheaders">foo</h1> instead?  I'm not a
CSS expert but that's how I would have done it...

--Bill.

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William R Ward            bill@wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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(...) Because that way every instance of a first-level heading that needed the desired effect would have to include the class attribute. When hand-coding, especially, it's a waste, and the coder has to remember how to achieve the effect. By (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.publish.html)

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(...) Thanks for the quick reply. If a less legacy-burdened coding for LUGNET is a goal, then that's ok by me. But. Old browsers is not the hang-up, as far as I can tell. (Especially since some really old browsers, like IE2 just to take a random (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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