[thelist] your opinion solicited on coding specs I requested from contractor

Tyme nopun at bellsouth.net
Tue Oct 23 22:38:49 CDT 2001


----- Original Message -----
From: Tara Cleveland <taracc at home.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] your opinion solicited on coding specs I requested
from contractor


>
> Sorry, I'm a bit late with this, but I'd add two things to your specs.
>
> 1. Specify the doc type you want them to use. I can't tell you the number
of
> times I've had people not use doc types at all.
> 2. Specify that they must use classes that are a description of the style,
not
> what the style is used for. For example, instead of using <span
> class="Intro_title">Hello world!</span> They should put <strong
> class="large_bold">Hello world!</strong>. I find that CSS, especially in a
> large project with different people using it at different times gets very
> confusing. So people end up using <span class="Intro_title"> on things
that are
> not an introduction or a title, or they make up a new class, exactly the
same
> as intro_title and your style sheets become unmanageable and redundant.

TYME} 3. Avoid using "_" (underscore) in class name; it is not supported by
all browsers.  Use "-" (hyphen) instead.






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