Seriously. You've succeeded in making yourself misunderstood. Now what?
You can't put ids and classes next to each other for comparison like this and then write one off. It doesn't work; they don't even do the same thing.. On 1/19/07, Matt Stith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
So.... clarify.. why are IDs so bad? Just because they are overused? On 1/19/07, Ⓙⓐⓚⓔ <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Don't get me wrong, I use an occasional id. But ids are over used. > Sure jQuery selects a single element faster with an id than with a > class, but that's only the beginning of a good chain of jquery! > > With a properly formatted html/xml, you can deal with the ancestors, > children, siblings, prev, next, and filter. That's why xml, xsl, > xquery, xpath, and jQuery are cool technologies (in my mind) and text > files and last millennium javascript programs are not. > > > The reason I'm posting this is I made a reference to this motto, that > might be misunderstood. > > "IDs are a crutch for the weak. Classes are for the strong." >
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