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Re: Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics

From: Molly Holzschlag <molly@molly.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 05:37:07 +0100
To: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, "'public-evangelist@w3.org' w3. org" <public-evangelist@w3.org>
CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Message-ID: <C00C9103.BD1B%molly@molly.com>

Karl,

Great comments and these statistics are very interesting, Ian. I have a lot
more thinking to do myself about this, but a slight issue since one of my
articles was cited:

> for the class="link", it's happening when you create menu and you
> want to style hover features, etc. I do not say, it's good, but I see
> a lot of web designers doing it. For example, look at this article of
> Molly E. Holzschlag
> http://molly.com/articles/markupandcss/1999-09-class.php
> and you will find a lot of examples of links. class are used as an
> indicator of behaviour.
> 
> I agree with this, it is said: "These probably deserve a little more
> study."

Note the date on that article - September 1999! I definitely do NOT think
this way anymore and I'm sure many other Web designers don't either. With
descendant selectors now so widely available, classing links is a bad
practice IMO.

Thanks,
Molly :)

-=-
Molly E. Holzschlag
Author / Instructor / Web Designer
http://www.molly.com/

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