On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 10:02:55AM +0100, tarquin wrote:
tarquin wrote:
so:
{species_animal} for the whole table
{species_animal_name}
{species_animal_name}
{species_animal_header}
but it would be evern *smarter* if {species_animal} *knew* that
* the 1st row was a header, and therefore shaded
* the 3rd row was a subheader, and therefore shaded,
* rows 4-6 are should have no horizontal border between them them (thus
simulating the subtable)
etc
Yes it would. But it would also mean you could not know what happens when
you add rows (or columns) to the table if you don't know what the CSS style
says.
Apoligies if I'm too negative about this idea. It's a very powerful idea and
my heart jumps with joy at the thought that we can used it to get rid of
HTML completely. However, it's just that for my feeling it makes formatting
so complicated and untransparent. It just doesn't feel very democratic to me
if you divide our contributers in those that know CSS and therefore can do
formatting and understand what the styles do, and those that don't. I admit
that the fact that I don't know CSS very well may play a part here, but it
also shows how high the threshold for doing formatting would become.
-- Jan Hidders