- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:09:50 -0800
----- Original Message ----- From: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu> To: "Andrew Fedoniouk" <news at terrainformatica.com> Cc: <whatwg at lists.whatwg.org> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:26 PM Subject: Re: [whatwg] HTML syntax: shortcuts for 'id' and 'class' attributes > Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: >> So if HTML5 will allow following: >> >> <p.myclass> ... </p> >> together with its full and equivalent form >> <p class="myclass"> ... </p> >> >> then this will be backward compatible solution as >> HTML5UA will understand both forms - classic and simplified. >> Am I right? > > No, because an HTML4 UA will not render that in any sort of reasonable way > (for example, in an HTML4 UA the "p.myclass" tag will never be closed). Boris, what about this then: <p .myclass> ... </p> <p #myid> ... </p> (tag name and attribute delimeted by space) Can this be considered as enough backward compatible ? <ot> Ruby is a JavaScript covered by thick layer of syntax sugar. I am trying to analyze Ruby fenomena in respect of HTML5. Probably such "sweet" syntax features will help to popularize HTML5 even more? </ot> <ot> In my personal opinion HTML4 is not perfect but good enough for the needs of Web Applications. It is CSS and scripting model that failed to provide even basic functionality modern web application require. It is enough to take a look on what people are doing with AJAX and outskirts currently. HTML per se is not a bottleneck I would say. </ot> Andrew.
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