El lun, 09-01-2006 a las 12:32 +0000, Ross Gardler escribió: ... > > One reason to come up with the prefix-scheme was to avoid long > > prefixed like "forrest-" in the future. While I'm usually much in > > favour of speaking names, here I would strongly object because we > > would really increase the overhead of each page when we carry long > > class-names in every generated element. > > So use "for-" instead ;-) >
+1 > >>I'm not at all sure of the benefits of using the expanded name prefixes > >>you define below. It just seems complex. Particularly when we remember > >>that classes in, for example, the tabs may be reused in the body. > > > > > > Seems to me like one more reason to have prefixes. Why would you have > > the same class name for two very differnt parts of a page? > > I meant that "for-highlight" might appear in the tabs and in the body > but is still the same hint in both locations. In your example names you > had things like "for-tabs-*" and "for-body-*", I interpreted this to > mean my hightligh class would become two hints with identical CSS meanings. > > However, you are saying that it may have a different meaning in the tabs > as to the body. I don't think this is not a problem though, CSS allows > you do define different definitions depending on where the class is found. > > Thorsten has already done some work on CSS naming conventions (long time > ago now). I'd suggest scouring the archives and seeing what he > suggested. My vague recollections are that it was quite similar to your > proposal here. Things will have changed a bit because we now have the > dispatcher (which incorporates many of those original ideas). > http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_80/views.html http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/forrest/trunk/main/webapp/skins/leather-dev/brainstorming.txt?view=markup http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/forrest/trunk/main/webapp/skins/leather-dev/contracts.initial.txt?view=markup Contracts are following already this convention. HTH salu2 -- thorsten "Together we stand, divided we fall!" Hey you (Pink Floyd)
