Re: Classes Considered Harmful

Sean B. Palmer, at 18:40 +0100 on Mon, 13 Aug 2001, wrote:

   Taking "were" to mean "are", that's wholly incorrect. Classes are a
   means of labelling elements to indicate further semantics, e.g. by
   classifying a set of elements into one group. Styling should then be
   applied according to that; not as a direct consequence of it.

I would argue that the most practical benefit of using classes is to
create factorization to minimize repetivity, irregardless of whether the
factorizing pulls out semantic or presentational aspects of a group of
elements.

As a user tries to actually think about how to factorizing more
efficiently, however, they will probably realize that factorizing via
semantics is a good route to take.

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Frank Tobin		http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/