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RE: Does WTSIWYG make simplicity moot?

• To: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Does WTSIWYG make simplicity moot?
• From: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>
• Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:36:40 -0800

> I've been conflicted about this kind of stuff for a long time, but at
> this point I've concluded that markup takes more forms than XML, and
> that CSS is probably better served by the choice of markup 
> that it made
> than it would be with piles of attributes, even if they were 
> put into a
> CSS namespace or somesuch.

I think there's a difference, though, between this :

<rect 
     style="stroke: black; fill:none;"/>

(which really add any legibility at all) and this:

<path d="
	M 300.75 412.25 
	L 294.75 412.25 
	L 294.75 406.25 
	L 300.75 406.25 
	L 300.75 412.25 
	"
/>

which is much easier to read than if it were split up into
attributes/elements. 

But, as you say, the debate is de facto lost anyhow.  Far be it from the
likes of me to criticize a Recommendation authored by the perfectly enmeshed
(enmashed?) intellects of close to 40 people, some of whom may have been
subtly influenced by the syntax of a certain company's proprietary language.

Dang! That was dripping in sarcasism, wasn't it?   Another timeout for
me....

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