(If you don’t work with HTML, this next post will be of no interest to you.)
Rant: the way external CSS stylesheets are included in HTML now is not logical nor convenient.
So:<linktype="test/css"href="(...).css" rel="stylesheet" />is wrong,
it should be<style type="text/css" src="(...).css" />.
Why?
Because src is for now, href is for later
In a HTML page, there are a number of files (URLs) that have to be fetched to display:
- any text in the document, within <h1>, <p> or <div> tags or not
- any images, specified as <img src=”” /> (always external)
- any iframes, specified as <iframe src=”” /> (always external)
- any javascript, specified as <script src=”” /> (external or in-line)
There are also links to other URLs that are not for now: maybe one click away, maybe just there to be interpreted by the web browser:
- anchor links, specified as <a href=””></a>
- links: prev/next, archive links, feed link, specified as <link rel=”” href=”” />
So: you need the src="" referenced files immediately, and the href="" ones not. The way stylesheets are referenced now breaks this logic.
Because <style> is for stylesheets
Why can you embed in-line CSS style information within <style> tags, but not external stylesheets? Compare that to Javascript:
Inline JS: <script>...</script> and
External JS: <script src="" />
That makes sense. The same should be possible for <style>. The way it works now is counter-intuitive and antiquated. So please add it to XHTML 1.1.
There are so many mistake in HTML 🙁 Take the input-field. This won’t work: Here comes the value although it’s so logic.
<input type="text>Here comes the input value</input>
Maar het is toch nu reeds zo, ofwel doe je het via “link” met href, ofwel doe je het via @import met url.
De tweede manier zal wel de standaard worden.