- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:53:58 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Laurens Holst wrote: > > > > Both elements have the ID "xyz", so both should match "#xyz". > > Doesn't that behaviour allow for misuse? Yes. So does the "class" attribute. > If Anne's suggestion is followed, authors would not be able to use ID's > as class attributes. If this works as you suggested in actual > implementations, even though invalid, people are going to (unknowingly) > misuse it. It is _much_ _much_ more common for people to abuse the "class" attribute than the "id" attribute. In fact abuse of "id" is rare. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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