- From: Jens Oliver Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 16:14:46 +0200
- To: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Cc: W3C WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>
> I think most web designers are visual people, not language people, so they > don't encode the deep structure of the design, just whether a particular bit > of text is a particular colour, etc. CSS works better if you think deeper > about the structure. Most designers would probably be happy with > everything inline. More of a tangent I suppose but I find we’ve gone through some interesting changes, in that the cost of violating orthogonality has gone down quite a bit. Viz., inlining (but also what’s called atomic now) would have caused massive maintenance troubles in the past, whereas now these have become much less of a burden (and cost). Personally I still prefer and recommend strict separation of concerns (and with that, continued use of functional ID and class names) but the whole debate has changed. (Incidentally, I’m currently surveying what makes for good maintainability with https://goo.gl/77NDre.) -- Jens Oliver Meiert https://meiert.com/en/
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