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Re: Classes Considered Harmful

From: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 22:41:49 -0500
Cc: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, <www-archive@w3.org>
To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
Message-Id: <20010708034209.PYZU14637.femail19.sdc1.sfba.home.com@localhost> 
On Saturday, July 7, 2001, at 09:36  PM, Kynn Bartlett wrote:

> 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."

This is a flaw in (the current version of) XHTML. Because it 
does not allow easy extensibility via namespaces, developers are 
forced to use the class attribute to get a poor approximation. I 
think that semantics and accessibility would be better served if 
XHTML did things a different way.

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