Here's another idea that's been bouncing around my head for a while. Most web sites have common elements - menus, columns, blocks of text, pullquotes, error messages, blockquotes, section headers, etc. These are not HTML elements (<p>, <ul> etc.) but they are common across most sites. If someone made a list of all of the most common (and some less common but still frequently seen) elements of a web site, and then gave them standardized names for use in CSS stylesheets, it would make swapping out designs (and creating new stylesheets) a lot quicker and easier.
For example, take a look at oswd.org. The site is full of nice (free!) designs, but if I want to use one I've got to change, at minimum, all of the HTML on my site to comply with the new stylesheet's naming conventions. And most of the names are for things that are conceptually exactly the same. If there were a standard naming convention, I could take any stylesheet that abides by the convention and swap it out for my current stylesheet and it would all Just Work(tm). Having such a standard would also make creating new site designs substantially easier on the designers. What are your thoughts? -Dan _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
