Re: css abuse from Leonard R. Kasday on 1999-09-29 (w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org from September 1999)

From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:39:56 -0400
To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
Cc: asgilman@access.digex.net
Message-Id: <3.0.32.19990929092538.00762658@pop3.concentric.net>

>The meaning CSS assigns directly is the presentation behavior.  The way to
>have a verbal common reference point for the visual and aural styling is to
>use good mnemonics as the class names in the HTML that the styles select on.

But does the User agent have access to those names?  And even if it did,
wouldn't it be better to have access to descriptions that are independent
of the names?  Otherwise, it would be like having mnemonics as file names
for images instead of ALT text.
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Temple University

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