[whatwg] Re: getElementsByClassName

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Sep 5 17:38:44 PDT 2005


On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Dean Edwards wrote:
> > > In which case, would it be worth adding a note to the spec stating 
> > > that implementations should not assume that all languages will use 
> > > white space delimiters between class names?
> > 
> > Well, it's highly theoretical. It seems such a note might be more 
> > confusing than helpful. What do you think?
> 
> It would be better to define that class names should not contain white 
> space.

Well, we can't really control that, I mean, other languages can invent 
whatever they want (and frequently do).

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