- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 19:36:03 -0700
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, <www-archive@w3.org>
Classes are sometimes harmful. Not always. Let's try not to make too sweeping of generalities here; as an example, it would be very hard to use CSS with XHTML if the general belief is that "classes are harmful." Which means you'd get a lot of reflex negative reaction from any experienced web developer who has found the use of class in (X)HTML to be essential to producing any reasonable presentation. Class is highly useful (and non-harmful) in XHTML, and you simply can't build a complex XHTML+CSS user interface without it. I think it's the wrong message to send if we make blanket statements like this, even if it's in the context of guidelines for building XML languages. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett mailto:kynn@hwg.org Board Member, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org/ AWARE Center Director http://www.awarecenter.org/
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