- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 03:27:33 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > > While we are on the subject of discussing HTML syntax.... > > How about following (wild) idea? > > To allow following notation (borrowed from CSS selectors): > > <p.myclass>...</p> is equivalent of > <p class="myclass">...</p> > > <p#myid>...</p> is equivalent of > <p id="myid">...</p> > > <p.myclass1.myclass2>...</p> is equivalent of > <p class="myclass1 myclass2">...</p> > > <p#myid.myclass1.myclass2>...</p> is equivalent of > <p id="myid" class="myclass1 myclass2">...</p> > > It is syntax sugar of course but at least it will reduce amount of data > needs to be sent over the wire. Unfortuntely that wouldn't be backwards compatible, and so isn't really an option. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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