Just playing devil's advocate here, but perhaps it can be thought of in a different light. If the purpose of the image is to illustrate or demonstrate some element of content within the page, then would the image cease to be part of the presentation layer and hence become part of the content layer, thus blurring the precious lines between content and presentation?
In other words, sans-stylesheet, would you still want the image floated the same side within a block of text? Is that a content decision or presentation? Yes, I could be rambling. It's early and I've not yet had my caffeine fix. Carry on... Elliot On 9/7/06, Lea de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > I'd go with something along those lines, yes, or even more generically > (if you foresee that at some point you may not want all images on the > same position, but differentiate them some other way - e.g. one has a > blue border, the other a red border, etc) having classnames like type1, > type2, type3 (as that doesn't imply position). I do the same thing (.left, .right, etc) too. I think it works, and only in very specific cases, because you *aren't* going to change what these look like - you are far more likely to remove the class. From the maintainers mindset, normal semantic name choice says 'and these types of items will have this look and feel (at this stage in the lifecycle)' whereas in this case we are saying 'and images in this position have a choice of A, B and C - change the ABC in the markup if this changes' I've tried to answer this thread 3 times now with 'I do it this way too because...' but it keeps coming out as uninteresting! I know I am using an effective work practice, but damned if I can explain it! :( Lea -- Lea de Groot Elysian Systems Brisbane, Australia ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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