designer wrote:
[...]Hi Patrick (and all),
I understand what you are saying about presentational names, but where does one draw the line?
Also, if you take this argument to it's extreme, you wouldn't use
names such as 'header' or 'footer', because you might want to change them
around later!
True, but I'd argue that the terms such as "header", although rooted in the print tradition of being at the top of a page, have come to signify the information you'd normally have there, such as "title, sub-title, author, date, page number"...so it's not purely about "it's at the top". Even if you visually re-order the page, that type of information would still be identified as "the header"...by me anyway.
But of course, it comes down to pragmatism and reasonability. But I think you can see how having part of a name like "left" or "right" does indeed pose certain problems. Heck, even CSS guru Eric Meyer wonders about this sort of thing sometimes
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/04/03/class-presentation/
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