In article <20030121093649.GS19500@beastie.bofh.dk>, Bobby Billingsley <bobby@billingsley.dk> wrote: [...]
Also, the tidy program seems to do a nice job of converting style-type tags into style properties/CSS - is this desireable?
My personal opinion is that this is only partly desirable. Part of an open-source OPAC's strengths is that it can be run on a text browser. If we drop all "style-type" tags, we lose B, U, INS, DEL, HR, etc. (tags that can degrade gracefully on a text browser); CSS styles can't be trusted to do all the tasks we assume they can do. If Koha does not use B, U, INS, DEL, or HR, I guess converting the style-type tags to CSS is then indeed desirable. (Personally I think the W3C folks are somewhat misguided in their effort to rid HTML of "style" tags and/or moving to XML. They should be instead focusing on making HTML compatible of actual (human) languages. A lot of the so-called "style" tags have limited semantic functions in certain contexts but can only be safely mapped to SPAN which is completely devoid of semantics.) -- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing <a.c.li@ieee.org>