- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 14:41:37 +0100
- To: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
Dão Gottwald wrote: > > The discussion is about defining semantics for certain classes, which is > utterly unrelated to default style sheets. How /can/ it be "utterly unrelated" ? When I associate one or more elements with a given class, I am (if I use markup correctly) ascribing certain semantics to those elements. In my style-sheet, I will then provide rules which indicate how I would like elements with those semantics to be rendered. If someone then comes along and re-defines the semantics of a class that I am already using, I either have to re-write my document to use a different class, /and/ re-write my style-sheet(s) to match, or I have to accept that the semantics that I intended have been replaced by (possibly very) different semantics, yet the rendering remains identical to the rendering I intended for my original semantics. Neither of these situations is acceptable, IMHO. Philip Taylor
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