- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:40:00 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Dailey, David P." <david.dailey@sru.edu>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Dailey, David P. wrote: > > Is there some way to just write the source code (or wysiwyg plaintext) > just once inside the appropriate tag(s), instead of having to parrot > onesself? Not currently. I don't think we should add this to HTML5, though. It's a somewhat narrow use case for syntactic sugar. What's more, the target audience (people writing HTML tutorials) are amongst the most savvy, so not the contingent we really should be aiming for as far as making things simpler goes. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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