Re: 'role' should be property

On 5/23/07, Dimitri Glazkov <dimitri.glazkov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am pretty sure the whole thing is a horrible idea. Not only the
> separation of concerns is compromised, but think about it: in order to
> understand semantics of an HTML document, you'll also need to parse
> the stylesheet. Now you're doubling the effort for non-browser user
> agents. Semantics should stay in the markup and certainly not require
> additional documents to parse in order to understand the meaning of
> the document.
>
Standard semantics is still in the page, it's just the non-standard stuff
that would be external. It makes more sense to me to define it once, than to
define it every time it's used.