- From: Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org>
- Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 14:59:35 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Jonas Sicking wrote: > Personally I think this was a very poor decision. The problem is that > you have user names and standard names mixed in the same namespace. So > there's a big risk that the user accidentally ends up marking semantic > meaning to their elements simply by wanting to style them. > > The only thing that can be done to help this problem (other than by > using the role attribute) is to use really obscure names for predefined > classes, which doesn't seem like a great idea either. Or have a known prefix, currently unused (either because the standard doesn't allow one of the characters, or by general practice). It's potentially a little ugly, but it allows the rest of the name to be meaningful. One possible suitable prefix would be the underscore _. Gerv
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