Not sounding grumpy at all Patrick. Sounding sensible. Semantic class names
are good!
I've just revisted the work of a programmer who wouldn't listen to me about
this, and has called coding variables $sideSubmenu and $sideRefine, because
OF COURSE every client I deal with is always going to want those variables
on the side of their web pages, right?! My preference would have been for
$searchSubmenu and $searchRefine, and then I wouldn't have to include in my
template documentation to others that with they can put these chunks of
information anywhere they please.
Cheers,
Helen
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At 09:19 AM 6/09/2006, you wrote:
Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote:
I would come up with something that meant something to me and that made
sense. "Indent" really wasn't bad, though. In the CSS it would have been
written as #description p.indent { } which really is quite telling as to
what it is, where it is, and what it's for. Agreed?
Maybe it's philosophical hairsplitting, but "indent" still describes the
visual effect you're trying to achieve, rather than being a name
describing either the function or a characteristic of the content itself.
IMHO "first" falls under that second category (it's an attribute of the
content "this is the first of something" in the absence of consistent
:first-child support). "indent" however is just the same as class names
like "red", "centered", "bold", "big", etc which should really be avoided,
as they are relating purely to the presentational aspects and not related
to the pure content itself.
Again, IMHO.
P (probably sounding like a grumpy old class name evangelist ;) )
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