On Oct 26, 2006, at 8:04 AM, Ben Ward wrote:
On 26 Oct 2006, at 18:35, Colin Barrett wrote:
On Oct 26, 2006, at 7:25 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
In message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ciaran
McNulty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
@rel=bookmark
I've seen several people refer to such things with an opening "@"
- what
does it mean?
I'm not sure on the etymology, but they're referring to attributes
on (X)HTML tags.
It's a lazy XPath-ish syntax that a has slipped into the geek
vocabulary (much as CSS selectors are sometimes used to quickly
describe a structure of elements).
Ah, XPath. My guess was CSS selectors, but the syntax there is a bit
different.
@ represents an attribute, so @rel=tag means @rel tag with the value
‘tag’. The most advanced I've seen it get in general discussion is
of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED], which means ‘element named foo with an
attribute bar with value ‘sheep’.
Technically, in CSS, that would be written as foo[bar=sheep]. :P
If people object, it's probably unreasonable to ask us not to use
such abbreviation, or preferably (for me at least, who likes to
abbreviate like that) perhaps we should document the shorthand on
the Wiki?
It's a handy abbreviation, and it should definitely be documented on
the wiki (Perhaps on the mailinglist page? Unless it is used on the
wiki as well...).
-Colin_______________________________________________
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