Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 11/13/63 11:26

Toby Inkster <usenet200509@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

>> Of course you could not use style sheets in html 3.2, since CSS only
>> came in as part of html 4.
>
> CSS is not "part" of HTML 4. One can happily use style sheets in
> validating HTML 3.2 documents. (Just not the style attribute or <style>
> element.)

HTML 3.2 even had <style> elements (though as incompatible with HTML 4:
no attributes were allowed, whereas HTML 4 requires the type attribute,
rather pointlessly, since text/css could have been defaulted even
formally).

HTML 2, on the other hand, had no <style> element - but you could still
have used style sheets with HTML 2, if browsers had implemented style
sheets in a manner that does not require their binding to HTML in HTML
source. In fact, that's the path things _should_ have taken.

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