- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:57:27 +0200
- To: Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>
- CC: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On 05.08.2010 21:46, Edward O'Connor wrote: >> 1) The description doesn't really explain what it's for. > > There's room for editorial improvement here, sure. > >> 2) I'm not sure why the use case is considered valid; what's wrong >> with using a CSS class for it? > > "When a practice is already widespread among authors, consider adopting > it rather than forbidding it or inventing something new."[1] Is it widespread? Also, how exactly is using class names and CSS for styling something "new"? >> 3) And finally, I'm not convinced that there's any point in forbidding >> it in<link>. If it's used for<a> styling, it could be used for >> <link> the same way (if links get displayed). > > But<link> links don't get displayed. Actually, they do (in my browser, using an extension). Best regards, Julian
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