Re: Proposed Design Principles updated

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>* Good practice: Separation of content, presentation, interaction
>A specification SHOULD allow authors to separate content from both
>presentation and interaction concerns.
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>(Covered by Mostly Semantic Markup, currently disputed.)

This design principle is one that I can live with, whereas "Mostly Semantic 
Markup"
is not one that I can live with.

I can support a design principle that calls for separation. This is the 
same principle
that has been at play since the earliest days of markup -- GML, SGML, XML.
This is one of the key design principles that led to the creation of markup.

However, the phrase "Mostly Semantic Markup" is overloaded. After all, <b>
has semantics and it facilitates for the separation of content and 
presentation.
But I suspect that the proponents of "Mostly Semantic Markup" aren't saying
that they want more <b>-like elements in HTML.

How about we all agree to the Good practice that is codified in WEBARCH
and forget about "Mostly Semantic Markup"?

Regards,

Murray

Received on Tuesday, 3 April 2007 13:01:53 UTC