- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:16:36 +0300
- To: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Cc: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
On Mar 28, 2007, at 11:28, Laurens Holst wrote: > p.s. Note that personally I think we could introduce the <h>, > <separator> and <l> elements in HTML5 as well, achieving backwards > compatibility through the same means. * The HTML5 outline algorithm enables <h>-like usage with the existing HTML heading elements. The idea from XHTML 2.0 has been taken into account in a way that yields a well-defined result when mixed with traditional <h1>–<h6> usage. * The HTML5 <hr> elements has, for practical purposes, the same semantics as XHTML 2.0 <separator>, but <hr> is backwards-compatible. * Although <br> isn't theoretically as pure as <l>, it covers the use cases well enough in a backwards-compatible way. The achievable marginal benefit does not seem to justify the cost here. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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