David Dixon wrote:
> Nice little blog entry you have there Mike,
> I like the honesty you've conveyed in your
> opinions [...]
Thank you David :-)
> [...] what is this .col1? what's in it? does it have
> a particular purpose? [...]
I agree in that it's not very telling as to what it is, with exception,
perhaps, to 1) the unstyled content, but then again it may as well be
section 1, section 2, section 3 or, 2) maybe looking at the styled page from
left to right. But then if things get swapped around this last part will no
longer have bearing.
> [...] Its kinda like a php variable being called
> $myvar (what on earth is this thing?).
I totally agree with the comparison. I had the draft started before any of
this came to the surface and one of my main reasons as of late for even
thinking about this sort of thing with any degree of depth to begin with is
from my experiences with working with the PHP scripting language. In PHP I
become extremely concerned with variable, ID, and function names and even
make them long at times for the sole purpose of understanding the script
down the road if that's what's needed. Unlike class and ID names used for
styling an HTML document, with scripting (any language I suppose) naming
conventions become absolutely critical. Even to the point of understanding
what is happening at the beginning of the script before I completing the end
of the script. When looking back over it, having telling names makes life a
million times easier. And if the script doesn't work the first time around
(which happens to me almost all the time because I'm a n00b as they say)
having good names makes troubleshooting and dissecting my own logic a lot
more doable. If I tried to obfuscate naming it that environment it'd be akin
to shooting myself in the foot. ;o
Working with PHP made me start thinking more and applying the same logic to
CSS classes and IDs. Just to make things as clear as possible.
Respectfully,
Mike Cherim
http://green-beast.com/
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