- From: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:08:44 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "'Lachlan Hunt'" <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, "'Jonas Sicking'" <jonas@sicking.cc>, "'Tab Atkins Jr.'" <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: "'James Graham'" <jgraham@opera.com>, <public-html@w3.org>
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > There doesn't appear to be any further discussion about the name before > it was changed, but other e-mails from a few days after that seem to > describe it as: > > | <aside> is for what are typically rendered in printed media as > | floating sidebars. Short inline comments are catered for by the > | "title" attribute: > | > | <p>Put the disc in the <span title="that cup holder thingie">cd > | drive</span></p> > | > | ...or, more typically, simply by marking the comment with > | parentheses, as you did in your example: > | > | <p>Put the disc in the cd drive (that cup holder thingie)</p> If ever there was a damning indictment of WHAT WG's use of the IRC back-channel to 'make decisions' without due consultation, here it is. It is now water long-gone under the bridge, but even recent discussion (http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090904#l-322 ) shows that this lesson has not been learned. IF YOU HAVE PROPOSALS - POST THEM PUBLICLY (and at both your club and W3C mailing lists) - play by your own rules! Meanwhile, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > > > Blogrolls and archive links are often on the sidebar, true, but I > think that's mostly a pure style issue - they are usually tall and > display well with a constrained width, which makes them fit much > better in a sidebar than a header. (JF wonders how "tall" and "constrained width" affects the non-sighted user... ) Not that the point is not taken, but structure is more than just display. JF
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