On Oct 5, 2007, at 16:37, Dr. Olaf Hoffmann wrote: > What I missed so many years in (X)HTML is > some useful markup for poems. There's <p> for each stanza and <br> for separating lines. > The result we can see in the 'real web life' - > a lot of meaningless tag soup around, > disoriented authors lost between silence > and semantically meaningless markup... Are there use case where software that consumes markup would benefit from poem-specific semantics? > (why not a generic heading > element as h from XHTML2 by the way? <h> would not be backwards-compatible and you'd have to define interaction with the <h1> through <h6>. HTML5 specifies <h1> in such a way that can used the way <h> can be used in XHTML2. > (a lot of readers of poetry are > robots from search engine for example ;o) How would they be helped by poem-specific semantics? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/Received on Friday, 5 October 2007 14:47:55 GMT
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