[whatwg] Re: getElementsByClassName

Dean Edwards dean at edwards.name
Mon Sep 5 17:41:59 PDT 2005


Ian Hickson wrote:
> 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).
> 

I thought we were controlling that. Isn't that what we are doing?

-dean




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