On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Eric L. Brine wrote:
> ELB> Great idea, but just one note; ':' is not legal in CSS class names.
> ELB> In fact, underscores are not even allowed in CSS class names!
>
> PL> So? They aren't CSS class names.
>
> In the preview mode, they are treated as such, so in effect they are.
Then I think the web browser you're using is broken. The CLASS
attribute is (and never was) reserved for the exclusive use of
styles. Anything not recognized should be ignored.
> In addition, if those are not stripped out by your module (and as far as
> I can tell with a quick look, they are not),
They probably *could* be.
> the resulting HTML does not conform to both strict HTML and CSS.
It's 100% conformant to HTML: please go read the specification.
As to CSS, I can't comment with authority since I'm not that
familiar with the specification; but, as I said above, I would
hope that anything not recognized is ignored.
> PL> The are in fact legal class names according to the HTML spec.
>
> The HTML spec doesn't define what is a legal class name. It's simply
> defined as "CDATA" (i.e. a HTML escaped string).
Then anything that is legal CDATA is a legal class name, by
definition. I really don't know how to make that any clearer.
- Paul
