- From: Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 16:31:30 -0500 (CDT)
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Cc: <www-html@w3.org>
Sean B. Palmer, at 18:40 +0100 on Mon, 13 Aug 2001, wrote: Taking "were" to mean "are", that's wholly incorrect. Classes are a means of labelling elements to indicate further semantics, e.g. by classifying a set of elements into one group. Styling should then be applied according to that; not as a direct consequence of it. I would argue that the most practical benefit of using classes is to create factorization to minimize repetivity, irregardless of whether the factorizing pulls out semantic or presentational aspects of a group of elements. As a user tries to actually think about how to factorizing more efficiently, however, they will probably realize that factorizing via semantics is a good route to take. -- Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
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