- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 15:28:46 +0100
- To: <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>, "Harvey Bingham" <hbingham@acm.org>
- Cc: <wai-xtech@w3.org>
> The list of class attribute values is larger than the 14 values > that Len Kasday had indicated. The semantics for several > are not suggested by their names. Oh please no! Using classes to identify semantics when there is no strict mechanism for doing so? Classes may well be there to group elements of a certain type, but this is a very short first party assertion in that it groups elements of a certain type without providing any reason of why these elements are grouped. If the class system is used otherwise, then you are extending the XHTML 1.0 specification; you should be using Modularization of XHTML [1] instead. Pragmatically, given the limitations of XHTML 1.0 in providing annotations (or even links to annotations), there's not really much we can do for classes, except perhaps to use URIs as class attribute values [2]. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/2001Feb/0136.html cf. http://purl.org/net/uriprofile/ -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . :Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .
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