Re: Classes Considered Harmful

On Saturday, July 7, 2001, at 10:52  PM, William Loughborough wrote:

>> I think that semantics and accessibility would be better 
>> served if XHTML did things a different way.
>
> Kynn is raising the "in the meanwhile" point which is the area 
> in which people doing *real* stuff operate. Since not only does 
> XHTML *not* do things in this different way, it is unlikely to 
> do so in any reasonable length of time.

Apologies - I thought that you folks were creating a set of 
recommendations for an ideal format, and I did not want Sean's 
point to be tossed out simply because XHTML didn't follow it.

Definitely, XHTML authors should use class. The authors of XHTML 
shouldn't.

Kynn comments:

> If you're thinking that designers wouldn't just create <blue> tags
> or color attributes, then you're hopelessly naive and/or deluded,
> friends.

No argument here. But you can at least give people the chance. 
Not too many folks use LONGDESC, but I'm very glad it's there.

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