- From: Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:45:58 -0500
Matthew Raymond wrote: > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: >> Leons Petrazickis wrote: >>> I think what's wanted is a Cascading Semantics Language. >> >> I'm baffled. Why do we want this? What would it allow us to do? > > There are people who posted ideas about semantic > properties for CSS on the www-style mailing list. They would > likely be ecstatic about turning CSS into a cascading > semantics language. Personally, this would be a greater > nightmare than the |role| attribute. > > However, global attributes like |role| aren't much better. > Attributes should specify the details of semantics that > elements already possess. Why should attributes (only?) specify the details of semantics that elements already possess? Is there an axiom or W3C finding that we can reference for this? > Generally, though, this is just math. For every attribute > or role you have that can apply to ALL elements, you have the > semantics of all those elements to interact with, plus you > have interactions between an indefinite number of global > attributes that may be defined on that element. Can you provide some concrete examples where that might cause a problem? -- -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/
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