More precisely, the use of id and class can only add semantic value to developers or to those who have to maintain the site. They have no bearing on "real world" semantics in terms of benefit derived by end users and page retrieval via search engines. To that end they are semantically neutral
-- Regards - Rob Raising web standards : http://ele.vation.co.uk Linking in with others : http://linkedin.com/in/robkirton On 21/05/07, Mordechai Peller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Paul Novitski wrote: > Mordechai, please elaborate on this point: how does HTML lose semantic > value when ids & classes are added? I think of ids & classes as being > semantically neutral or inert. When used properly, ids and classes add semantic value. (That ids and classes can add value is, in part, the basis for microformats.) For example, id="nav-main", id="footer", class="price" all add value. However, there's values in scarcity. When ids and classes are scarce there is an implied value which is imparted because "this element has one and that element doesn't." With class="bullet1", class="bullet2", class="bullet3", etc., their value is somewhat diluted. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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