[Seaside] Re: Why - XHTML perfectly good names are now given en Seaside new names

[Ramon Leon]

On 02/18/2011 04:24 PM, Stuart Herring wrote:
> I guess the simplest answer to your original question is:
> The reason Seaside does not use XHTML tag names as-is is because
> Seaside is not a wrapper, it is an abstraction.

A simpler answer might be, Smalltalker's just generally don't like 
abbreviations in code, they like words that can be read aloud and spoken 
about without sounding absurd.  When you talk about html, you talk about 
anchors, paragraphs, headings, orderedLists, unorderedLists, etc. 
That's why they're better selectors.

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