On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 05:59:25PM +0200, paul POULAIN wrote:
As I understand it, stylesheets specify colors, fonts, and all of those little presentation details. In particular, AIUI, stylesheets do not specify content. So why would the *.css files go in <theme>/<lang>? How are the French link colors different from the Italian or German colors?
You're right, here...
Actually CSS2 style sheets can specify some text content, though I don't think anyone uses this "feature", & I think it's a bad idea to do so in any case. IIRC, the standard has an example of this using the Q element as an example. Regarding the notion of "presentation details", one thing I always mention is that it is grammatically wrong to underline links in Chinese pages. No one cares, but the underline is a punctuation mark, meaning the underlined word is a proper noun. "Presentation details" may be important for a language we don't know about. (The W3C guys seems to not realize this fact about "presentation details", and is thus making HTML less Chinese friendly; it also proposes features which are completely useless for languages they are designed for. But that's another story.) -- Ambrose Li ``A good style should show no sign of effort; what is written should seem a happy accident.'' ~ Somerset Maugham