Re: Proposal: Chained Classnames

Gervase Markham wrote:

> In summary: some people think that this is a bad idea because this class 
> name (and other undecorated ones) may already be in use on the web with 
> semantics different from those which we propose to apply, and/or the 
> author may have trusted our promise that class names are not supposed to 
> mean anything.

Not "not supposed to mean anything" /per se/, but rather not to
have any /a priori/ meaning.  In other words, a class name,
properly used, /should/ mean something, but what it means
is for the author to decide.

Philip Taylor

Received on Thursday, 17 May 2007 11:02:23 UTC