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by mushyhammer 1540 days ago
What you’re saying was not clear from the start, you keep moving the goalpost.

Ironically XML allowed namespaces so css:color="red" could have totally been a thing. However CSS came out to separate content from style, so doing that wouldn’t have made much sense. I wouldn’t be surprised if the style attribute was added later.

Edit: wow I was right:

> HTML 3.0 supports style sheets via the use of the LINK element [1]

> HTML 4.0 adds new hooks for style sheets, which suggest how a document is presented. The new ID, CLASS, and STYLE attributes [2]

[1]: https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/intro.html

[2]: https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/reference/wdghtml401/new.htm...

1 comments

"you keep moving the goalpost."

This is my first post in this thread... And no, it is not moving any goalpost.

"However CSS came out to separate content from style, so doing that wouldn’t have made much sense"

The first is true, but it does not imply the second.