- From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:26:45 +0000
- To: "Dailey, David P." <david.dailey@sru.edu>
- CC: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, public-html@w3.org, oedipus@hicom.net
Dailey, David P. wrote: > Reducing keystrokes helps with legibility of the code. I think that that is a personal, and very challengeable, position. My personal (and equally challengeable) position is that a name (tag) that is inherently meaningful is preferable to one whose meaning is opaque. If I may refer to a parallel thread, initiated by (I think) Gregory Rosmaita, Gregory is arguing that <dialog> should be reduced to <d>; whilst I sympathise with his case, I feel that <dlg> would address his concerns, is far more memorable, and would therefore lead to better legibility in the code in which it is used. On the same basis, I am less than convinced that <c> is preferable to <span>, particuarly since HWL has subsequently clarified that it would not delimit a stretch of characters, but rather anything that <span> can currently delimit, at which point its very name (or the name from which it is derived) becomes inappropriate. On the other hand, I have no objection to the <TAG.class> or <TAG.identifier> syntax, so long as it does not conflict with the deeper syntax of the language. Philip TAYLOR
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