Re: [Phpwiki-talk] css classes, ids in markup

[Matt B. <ma...@ma...>]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 11:00 +0100, John Kershaw wrote:

> What I'm proposing (and using on some of my ancient phpwiki 1.3.0's) 
> is 100% about keeping markup separate from content. CSS classes and 
> ID attributes allow my users to add semantic meaning to their content 
> without having to worry about how it's going to presented, either now 
> or after some future site-wide stylesheet alterations.

OK. At least we're heading for the same goal here, 100% agree that good
classes and IDs on attributes are necessary, but I have some
reservations about allowing arbitrary specification....

> For instance, my <div> code looks like this:
> 
> ==== pullquote
> What a great idea
> ====
<snip other examples>
> BTW The markup used is entirely up for discussion - I'm only talking 
> about the validity of the approach.

OK. I think you've mostly convinced me that I do agree with what you're
proposing, I probably misunderstood the initial post a little. 

I'm still vaguely uncomfortable with the idea of allowing users to add
arbitrary classes to objects. I can't pinpoint exactly why though. I
guess it's the whole trade off between flexibility and correctness. If
you let users define arbitrary classes/ids you can bet it's going to be
misused quicker than you can blink your eye. I'm not sure that that is a
strong argument against your proposal though... just thinking aloud
here.

Could it be split into two parts?
- Some extra syntactical features to define some commonly used page
elements 
- An extra plugin that when included allows precise specification of
class names / ids for attributes.

Regards

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