Re: Implying rb for accessibility (was RE: HTML5 and ruby

On 2012/01/22 7:07, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> Koji Ishii, Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:17:24 -0500:

>> And the world
>> becomes even friendlier to them if HTML5 implies rb tag when omitted.
>
> Why? Instead of auto-generating<rb>  in the DOM, why not make<rb>
> obligatory?

We are already trying hard to get <rb> accepted. If we propose that it 
be required, I think this will become even harder. While there are a lot 
of sites with <rb>, there are also a lot of sites without, and these 
would suddenly become invalid.

Regards,    Martin.

Received on Monday, 23 January 2012 01:39:30 UTC