Is there still room for discussion regarding the /role/ attribute with namespacing as an alternative? A lot of us loved the IDEA of predefined "classes", but didn't like the idea of confusing THAT mechanism with the CSS class mechanism.
Adrienne On 5/16/07, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
