- From: Peter Krantz <peter.krantz@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:42:02 +0100
- To: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de> wrote: > My own vocabulary will have no influence on the presentation, therefore > this approach does not meet the requirements as noted on the wiki page. Why do you want to mix markup with presentation? HTML with CSS (aural and visual) will provide the information ot the user agent on how to present it. I am guessing that you, as the poet, would want to be able to influence the presentation rather than being forced by user agents? > There is a need for a predefined vocabulary with well implemented > behaviour in user-agents. > Centrally defined and controlled domain specific vocabularies are difficult to establish. Why do you think poetry should be added but not law, cooking, shipping or animal husbandry? "Well implemented behaviour in user agents" is not controlled by the HTML WG. > But ol is not very > useful too, because this is typically presented with some line > markers like numbers or letters, Please note the difference between markup and presentation. There has been a lot of work to make sure the web is moving in that direction. Regards, Peter
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