Re: Re: Possible alternative methods for "include"

On Feb 6, 2008 12:00 PM, Ryan King <ryantheryanking.com> wrote:
> Specs aren't generally written in layman's terms.

If the ordering of class names were supposed to to have some
special
significance, there would be further information about such
a specific
order. In this case a lack of evidence points to no
importance in the
order of the class names.

Attributes are unordered because if they were, it would make
life a
lot more difficult for those using them. Likewise for class
names.

Some browsers do impose their own ordering on the
attributes, and
other scripts may affect the ordering of class names too. As
such any
reliance on a particular order is liable to fall apart
rather quickly.

-- 
Paul Wilkins
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Paul Wilkins wrote:

> If the ordering of class names were supposed to to have
some special
> significance, there would be further information about
such a specific
> order. In this case a lack of evidence points to no
importance in the
> order of the class names.

If the ordering of paragraphs were supposed to have some
special 
significance, there would be further information about such
a specific 
order. In this case a lack of evidence points to no
importance in the 
order of paragraphs.

Thus the following HTML documents may be rendered
identically by a 
conforming browser, right?

	<title>Document one</title>
	<p>one</p>
	<p>two</p>

	<title>Document two</title>
	<p>two</p>
	<p>one</p>

The order of the paragraphs doesn't have a "special
significance", yet the 
paragraphs do have an inherent order. Similarly, the order
of class names 
within a class attribute don't have a special significance
attached to 
them by the HTML spec, but they do still have an inherent
order.

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