- From: Pentasis <pentasis@lavabit.com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 09:59:09 +0200
> > The spec already describes how to do footnotes: > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#footnotes > Yes, but this is a theoretical explanation that does not provide a consistent, practical solution. > >> As the <mark> element has different usages defined on it already why not >> include a "type" attribute (or similar) that defines what it is used >> for. One of these types would then be "footnote", others could be >> (relating to what is already in the spec) "term", "highlight" etc. (I am >> sure others would be much better at thinking up names than I am). > > That's what the "class" attribute is for. > Like I said before, I think class (and id) should be reserved for styling and not be content/semantic related at all. It is strange how we all advocate separation of the two but allow these attributes to encompass descriptive values for both. Bert
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