Re: draft-ietf-html-style-00.txt & class as a general selector

• From: Joe English <joe@trystero.art.com>
• Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 10:00:45 PST
• To: www-style@w3.org
• Message-Id: <9512081800.AA27545@trystero.art.com>

Hakon Lie <Hakon.Lie@sophia.inria.fr> wrote:

> In CSS1, which is HTML-specific, '.' is a shorthand for "a class
> called". CSS2 will introduce a way of declaring what attribute '.'
> refers to:
> 
>   @archform CLASS

This may not be all that useful for a general-purpose SGML formatter.
Very few DTDs other than HTML have an attribute with the same
semantics as CLASS.


> Yes, and is very much in line with CSS thinking. A few questions
> remain:
> 
>  - should one also allow the more verbose versions (CLASS=foo,
>    ID=x67y) in CSS1?

Yes, unless it's only intended to be used with HTML.


--Joe English

  joe@art.com

Received on Friday, 8 December 1995 13:04:54 UTC