Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Designer wrote:
I'm going back to my original wishlist of yesterday:
Wouldn't it be nice if we could get browsers to interpret ^ (or
something) as meaning 'div id=' (and something else for 'class=').
Then we could have, xml style code, such as:
<^pageborder>
<^content>
blah blah
</content>
</pageborder>
No. Not only would that not be backwards compatible, but is absolutely
no better than writing a regular XML document with the same tag names
(excluding the ^ characters). In fact, such a syntax would just
encourage authors to use div for absolutely everything, resulting in an
extreme cases of divitis.
Lachlan, I didn't mean "instead of", I meant "as well as" - so surely
that wouldn't be backwards incompatible?
Also, I don't get your reasoning about divitis: surely the same
criticism could be levelled at the xml conversion route? The level of
the coding is, as now, dependent upon the semantic skill/expertise of
the coder.
It would be better (i my view) because all html/xhtml coders could do it
in notepad (or whatever), and not have to get involved in server
transformations and all that stuff. Some folk seem to be suggesting
that the xml route is a bit of a headache . . .
--
Bob
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
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