- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:55:29 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: HTMLwg WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Sam Ruby wrote: > > Cool! Let's get rid of acronym and font. Done. > While we are at it, lets get rid of b, i, We did, and then good arguments were presented for keeping specifically those two. > small, We did, but a use case was presented that we could address by strategically reusing this element, which is why HTML5 has an element in it with the same name as HTML4's <small>. > big and tt. Done. > Let's require quotes around attributes, Why? That doesn't seem to solve any pressing problems. We have, however, cleaned up the rules about quotes around attributes. > and every tag to be explicitly closed. Again, that doesn't seem to solve any pressing problems. For this and quotes, however, we have both an XML serialisation for people who really want these rules, and we have the option for validators to offer additional "lint" options to authors who think it's imporant. > Lets replace den and ins with an edit attribute. What problem would this solve and would this advantage outweigh the benefits of keeping the existing elements? > Oh, and lets completely redo how forms are done. Done. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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