On 27/05/11 11:15, Stargazer wrote:
This patch, which adds the id attribute to the body tag is not for the benefit
of the author, but for the consumer/user.

As the author, I do use the /-a stylesheet=/ to slightly tweak the xhtml11 or
html5 theme before distributing my documentation. I find the AsciiDoc CSS
provides a solid foundation for formatting HTML documentation but I may have a
couple of tweaks. My basic goal is to be as "minimalist as possible" in regards
to modifications to AsciiDoc. It makes installs less prone to errors and so much
faster :-)

I first read about the '/CSS Signature/' technique in the book, "Transcending
CSS", page 41, by Andy Clarke. It allows the consumer/user to make changes to
the style of an _individual site_ by adding rules to their browser's user style
sheet. Granted there are other benefits to this unique
identification. The book referred readers to the css-discuss thread 13291
<http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/13291>.

A couple of examples from live sites:

    * <body id="www-w3-org" class="w3c_public w3c_home"> <http://www.w3.org>
    * <body id="www-meyerweb-com" class="hpg"> <http://meyerweb.com/>

This patch would allow the addition of the id attritbute on the body tag.

Ok, I understand what it's all about now, and if Eric Meyer thinks it's a good idea then I guess it must be :-)

I did a quick Google and the term 'CSS signature' seems to be in common use so I'm thinking that calling the attribute css-signature (its function) would be preferable to body-id (its implementation).

Cheers, Stuart



Thank you.
Peg Russell

PS: I used the new google groups web UI and it allows the attachment of files,
so I resent the patch.

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