- From: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 22:41:49 -0500
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, <www-archive@w3.org>
On Saturday, July 7, 2001, at 09:36 PM, Kynn Bartlett wrote: > Classes are sometimes harmful. Not always. Let's try not to make > too sweeping of generalities here; as an example, it would be very > hard to use CSS with XHTML if the general belief is that "classes > are harmful." This is a flaw in (the current version of) XHTML. Because it does not allow easy extensibility via namespaces, developers are forced to use the class attribute to get a poor approximation. I think that semantics and accessibility would be better served if XHTML did things a different way. -- [ "Aaron Swartz" ; <mailto:me@aaronsw.com> ; <http://www.aaronsw.com/> ]
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