Whohoo! This is great news. This was one of most ill-conceived ideas I can imagine. Leaving class values unfettered by the HTML spec is hugely important.
I imagine that the original concept is something of a hat tip to microformats -- but avoids the process that we use as well as circumvents the peer review of this community. It also seems dictated by fiat as opposed to open discussion (but that's a minor point). Anyway, I have it in mind to recreate some of the cooler HTML5 and XHTML2 features with existing markup/techniques, so we'll see how far we can get with the tech we already got. Chris On 5/16/07, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just an FYI, ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 16, 2007 9:42 PM Subject: [whatwg] Predefined classes are gone To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In response to overwhelming feedback on this issue (especially in blogs, forums, and mailing lists other than this one, like www-html and public-html) I've removed the predefined classes. They're opaque again. The main use cases for predefined classes can mostly be dealt with using some of the new elements. class=note and class=example, for instance, can instead use <aside> elements, class=copyright can use <small>, etc. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. charles @ reptile.ca supercanadian @ gmail.com developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
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