- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:11:17 -0400
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > James Graham wrote: > >> to denote a section of the page other than the main content. One could >> then subdivide using an attribute (<chrome type="header"> <chrome >> type="footer"> and so on). > > DO NOT overload the type attribute any more than it already is. We had > this discussion a few months ago when I was paying more attention to > this work, and several people were suggesting the use of type for > various things. The type attrubue *SHOULD* only be used for denothing > the MIME type of a resource, and for form controls. HTML4 already > overloaded the attrbute with 10 different uses; 8 of them being > presentational, and thus deprecated. Call it 'role'. It's not the names that are important in what James is saying, it's the concepts. ~fantasai -- http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/contact
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