- From: Adrienne Travis <altravis@eidolongroup.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 11:22:35 -0500
Is there still room for discussion regarding the /role/ attribute with namespacing as an alternative? A lot of us loved the IDEA of predefined "classes", but didn't like the idea of confusing THAT mechanism with the CSS class mechanism. Adrienne On 5/16/07, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > In response to overwhelming feedback on this issue (especially in blogs, > forums, and mailing lists other than this one, like www-html and > public-html) I've removed the predefined classes. They're opaque again. > > The main use cases for predefined classes can mostly be dealt with using > some of the new elements. class=note and class=example, for instance, can > instead use <aside> elements, class=copyright can use <small>, etc. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' >
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