On Nov 7, 2005, at 3:26 AM, Sylvain Wallez wrote:

Jorg Heymans wrote:
Sylvain Wallez wrote:

The initial "foo.bar:input" proposal *structurally* prevents name


all crispy clear now.

It was clear then. As always there are trade offs. In this case Its between possible naming conflicts and a CSS incompatibility (bad practices aside) in 90% of users browsers. Which error will be easier to detect? Which is most likely to affect users?



Phew! Sometimes, when there's a lot of background, producing a clear explanation is not an easy task ;-) Now I'm glad I finally was able to do it, and will make sure this is written in the docs, to avoid the same effort later in the future :-)

as opposed to sooner in the future? ;-)


Sylvain

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