- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:47:28 +0100
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:41:12 +0100, Gervase Markham <gerv at mozilla.org> wrote: >> About that, I would like to suggest that the current text be changed to >> reserve class names starting with a dash "-" for private use. That way >> that we would have a pool of class names which are guarantied to not be >> taken over later when new predefined class names are added. > > Surely it would make much more sense to have all the predefined class > names start with a dash? After all, XHTML5 is not yet standardised, > whereas people have been using all sorts of random class names for years > - but, I suspect, mostly without a leading dash. > > This is similar to the C/C++ thing of having reserved symbols like > __LINE__ start with an underscore. Surely it would make much more sense to have HTML parsers should stop at the first error too. This is similar to C/C++ compilers throwing an error at you. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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