- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:19:31 +0100
- To: Lee Kowalkowski <lee.kowalkowski@googlemail.com>
- CC: Tony Ross <tross@microsoft.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Lee Kowalkowski On 09-10-26 09.53: > 2009/10/24 Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>: >> If source readability/short code is the primary usecase, then we should look >> more thoroughly at the shorthand syntax notation idea that Håkon brought >> forward in a thread in February: [1] >> >> Normal: <p class="abstract"> >> Shorthand: <p.abstract> >> >> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Feb/0136 > > I followed that thread and found this example: > > <p#myid.myclass1.myclass2>...</p> is equivalent of > <p id="myid" class="myclass1 myclass2">...</p> > > ...but we can't have that because an ID may contain a period. We'd > have to do something like put class names first to prevent <p > id="myid.myclass1.myclass2">, or have spaces between them. Class names may also contain a period. But we don't need to swallow Håkon's proposal whole. If the purpose is extensibility + readability, then one could * disallow anything but class names; * disallow certain characters in shorthand notation; -- leif halvard silli
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