- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 23:59:01 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> >
> > I envisage somehow making className implement the DOMTokenString
> > interface:
> >
> > http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#domtokenstring
> >
> > ...so that you would have Element.className.add(),
> > Element.className.has(), etc.
>
> Cool, I'll see what I can do about implementing that. I think I may be
> able to extend the String() object quite easily for that, though I'll
> have to think about it a little more.
Let me know how that goes. That interface hasn't really been looked at
much yet.
> > What if an element is in the class "foo bar"?
>
> So, you're saying that it's possible that some hypothetical langauge may
> define a class attribute with any character as the delimiter, not just
> white space? So, for example, a language could use semi-colons like
> this: foo:class="foo bar;baz" and thus, for that language, gEBCN("foo
> bar") would match that?
Yeah. Theoretically. It's not exactly likely, but...
> In which case, would it be worth adding a note to the spec stating that
> implementations should not assume that all languages will use white
> space delimiters between class names?
Well, it's highly theoretical. It seems such a note might be more
confusing than helpful. What do you think?
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