On Feb 5, 2008, at 8:23 AM, Toby A Inkster wrote:
Tantek =?ISO-8859-1?B?xw==?=elik wrote:
1. class is an unordered set of values per HTML4. introducing
ordering
is a non-starter both from a violation of HTML4 spec perspective and
likely requiring of rewriting HTML4 parsers to maintain an ordering
where they currently don't.
A reading of HTML 4.01, section 7.5.2 doesn't seem to claim that the
class
list is unordered.
It does claim that it's a "set" of class names, and in mathematical
parlance sets are unordered by definition, and must not contain
duplicates, but it's unlikely that the framers of the HTML 4.01 spec
intended the world "set" to be interpreted in that way -- far more
likely
they were referring to the layman's definition of the word.
Specs aren't generally written in layman's terms.
-ryan
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