- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:20:40 +0000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>, www-style@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Laurens Holst wrote: > >>>Both elements have the ID "xyz", so both should match "#xyz". >> >>Doesn't that behaviour allow for misuse? > > > Yes. So does the "class" attribute. > > > >>If Anne's suggestion is followed, authors would not be able to use ID's >>as class attributes. If this works as you suggested in actual >>implementations, even though invalid, people are going to (unknowingly) >>misuse it. > > > It is _much_ _much_ more common for people to abuse the "class" attribute > than the "id" attribute. In fact abuse of "id" is rare. Maybe. But it exists : http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.eyrolles.com/ How does one abuse a "class" attribute, btw ? Philip Taylor
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