- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 19:57:29 +0100
- To: John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>
- CC: 'Jonas Sicking' <jonas@sicking.cc>, 'Dan Connolly' <connolly@w3.org>, www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
John Foliot wrote: > Jonas Sicking wrote: >> I would not be opposed to adding a 'role' attribute, as long as we >> also support adding semantics the way it's done before. > > And how is that Jonas? Outside of the "copyright" example, can you point to > another instance of how semantic meaning has been ascribed to a word or > string (sentence)? Can you show me an example of emotion or semantic nuance > "in the wild?" In email exchanges, we occasionally see things like: > > <sarcasm></sarcasm> > <joke></joke> > <critical></critical> > ...and so forth, however, I've never seen: <span class="sarcasm"></span> or > <p class="joke"></p>. If it (or something similar) exists, please do point > it out. I wonder if it would help if W3C constructed a representative sample of the web which we could grep for markup like this. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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