- From: Adam Kuehn <akuehn@nc.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:55:07 -0500
- To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, www-style@w3.org
Elliotte Harold wrote: >Attributes of type ID can and do have the same value. A document in >which this occurs would be invalid; but such documents do exist, are >well-formed, and can be usefully processed. > >I suggest two things: > >1. Weaken the first paragraph to make it clear that there is no >guarantee that IDs are unique, even if they're supposed to be. > >2. Specify what happens when multiple elements share the same ID. I >would prefer the style rule to be applied to both such elements. >However, you could logically choose it to apply to only the first. I >would prefer this behavior not to be undefined. I strongly disagree. This would simply encourage authors to abuse IDs and use them as classes. Unpredictable error behavior encourages authors not to make errors. -Adam Kuehn
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