Very interesting article. I know I have more than once made myself guilty of naming things #leftbar for instance :P SASS also helps quite a bit towards structural naming. For instance with SASS there is even less tendency to use things like .red-link, as you can describe those colours in SASS variables ;)
2008/12/4 scottwb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Great article. And timely too...I was just thinking along these lines > over the last few days as I was rewriting a bunch of CSS code in SASS > and renaming classes and ids to be pretty close to what this guy calls > "structural naming" (though he articulated it much better than what I > would have said!) > > Thanks for sharing the link. > -scottwb > > On Dec 4, 7:30 am, Evgeny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Hamlites and Sasspeople, just wanted to share an article I've read that I >> think will be interesting to most of you. >> >> http://sixrevisions.com/css/css-tips/css-tip-2-structural-naming-conv... >> >> "*Structural naming convention* – in essence – just means that you name (by >> assigning a class and/or id attribute to them) elements by describing *what >> they are*, and not*where they are* or *how the look*. Its counterpart is >> called presentational naming which describes the *location and/or appearance >> * of web page elements." >> >> Since we already have presentational representation with Sass and Haml, it >> would be beneficial to use a structural naming convention that will be more >> readable and contribute additional meta information to the layout elements. >> >> Hope you enjoy it! >> >> - evgeny > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Haml" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
