- From: Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:19:25 -0500
Matthew Raymond wrote: > I'm not always the most tactful or sensitive person. If my > choice of words in my original message offended you, I > apologize. My passion for a subject occasionally makes me > blind to how others might interpret my message. Apology accepted. > If you really want to debate the original topic, I'll be > waiting. I'd be pleasantly surprised if this actually turned > into a discussion about semantic styling languages... Can you please explain exactly what you mean about "semantic styling languages?" Do you mean the same as what Tantek refers to as "semantic (X)HTML?" [1] I think of "styling" as relating to fonts, colors, positioning, etc. I decided to google for your various comments to try to get an understanding of what you were talking about in past discussions and I was sure that you had to have expressed this issue in the past. I found this link [2]. From it I quote: > The problem is that, for all the creative ways you can > use hCalendar/hCard, it's more complicated for webmasters > to read and understand and more complicated for > developers to implement. Furthermore, I dislike the entire > system of using class names as markup. Class names > should be reserved for user-defined semantics. Is this the same issue? -- -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/ [1] http://tantek.com/presentations/20040928sdforumws/semantic-xhtml.html [2] http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2005-February/00 3116.html P.S. Based on some of your comments from [2] you might find that I am in more agreement with you than you first assumed (or maybe not, I won't know until I better understand your issues.)
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