Re: possibly frivolous suggestion

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Sue Sims wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:33:15 -0000, you wrote:
>> Very frivolous, but sometimes these things can prove useful. At the
>> moment I just do a p.rant and assign the style as a class. A
>> dedicated tag would be rather handy though...
> A "dedicated" tag is not required.

In that case, would you do away with <ADDRESS> and use <P
class=address> instead? what about OL, UL? Just one list element and
select the type of list by class? They are all dedicated tags.

IMHO, CSS should only be *additional* information. If the CSS is
required to make sense of the document, then it has been abused. If we
follow your argument to it's limit, then why not just use <DIV>, with
suitable classes? All that does is move the structure to a different
level (that of attributes instead of elements).


> My .rant class lives in my CSS file, where it should. I might be
> interested in some sort of standardization on commonly used class
> names (.note, .warning, .rant et.al.). I think Todd posted some at
> one time, but I can't locate them.

Todd said 'The Core Style project proposed, quietly, the following
"named styles" namespace, with a category devoted to
"functional/presentational"' and then posted the following:

/* Dublin Core Metadata Set */

.content
#Title
#Subject
#Description
#Source
#Language
#Relation
#Coverage

.intellectualproperty
#Creator
#Publisher
#Contributor
#Rights

.instantiation
#Date
#Type
#Format
#Identifier



/* semantic/rhetorical */

#abstract
#acknowledgment
.advertisement
.answer
#antithesis
.conclusion
.credit
.detail
#dedication
.excursus
.irony
.key
.note
.opposition
.proposal
.question
.rant                   /* <---- there you go! */
.recommendation
.remark
.subhead
#summary
#synthesis
#thesis
.warning



/* functional/presentational */

.callout
#colophon
.offsite
.hilite
.initial
.marginalia
.navigation
.persistent
.proof_only
#splash

.successive
.transient
.teaser




-- 
Ian Hickson

Received on Monday, 30 November 1998 09:05:53 UTC