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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 23:30:06 +0200
From: Michael Schaap <cygwin AT mscha DOT org>
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Subject: Re: CSS in the User's Guide (was:Updating dll info...)
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On 22-8-2002 21:24, Soren A wrote:
> 
> I've seen no evidence that either you or Chris have taken the time to
> view the source of one of the UG pages. What I have been talking about
> all along is that DocBook is *already using CSS* in the output that is
> the UG pages. The effort required to have discovered a fragment of a
> page chosen at random, like this one (using.html#USING-PATHNAMES): 
> 
>   By default, the POSIX root <TT CLASS="FILENAME">/</TT> points to
>   the system partition but it can be relocated to any directory in
>   the Windows file system using the <B CLASS="COMMAND">mount</B>
>   command.
> 
> seems really minimal. I have no idea why the people I am responding to
> found it beyond them (`grep -i 'CLASS='' ???) . Only complete
> unfamiliarity with HTML -- and I grant that this is a possibility, I
> realize that not all C/C++ programmers are Web page builders -- would
> leave one unable to quickly recognize that in that fragment there are
> TWO references to Cascading Style Sheets: 
> 
>   <TT CLASS="FILENAME">
>   <B CLASS="COMMAND">
> 
> Yet these documents have no definition of what "COMMAND" or "FILENAME"
> should mean to the browser being asked to render the page. Half of the
> mechanism of CSS is *already* present in the documents, the other half
> is *missing*. 

May I recommend that you read:
	http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.2
*carefully*?
Please tell us where it insists that you must have CSS style rules 
whenever you use the 'class' attribute.

> 
> Lastly, my final suggestion:
>    (3) Don't emulate Chris Faylor in terms of taking verbal stances or 
> attitudes.

Now if this isn't the pot calling the kettle black ...

  - Michael


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