- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:39:18 -0400
- To: "Laura Carlson" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org
is this really rare enough though? Part of us feel that loosing it will devalue accessability work of many years. On Jun 1, 2007, at 6:48 PM, Laura Carlson wrote: > > Related blog post: > http://juicystudio.com/article/html-scope-headers-debate.php > > Comment from HTML 5 editor, Ian Hickson: > http://juicystudio.com/article/html-scope-headers-debate.php#comment8 > >> I have to be clear. >> We are not going to have semantics for everything. If something is >> rare, then it won't be supported. It really is that simple. This is >> about achieving the 80% common case, it's not about making a language >> that does everything. There are hundreds of things that people have >> asked for which are not included because right now they simply don't >> have the demand. For example, there's no way to mark up the >> relationship between two SPAN elements containing the name of a lion >> and the name of its kitten. There's no way to mark up the >> relationship between two numbers in a big table (e.g. "that number is >> twice this number"). If the occurrences of such tables are rare, >> then that, on its own, is an argument against this feature. >> >> We have to have this razor, this restraint in adding features, >> because otherwise our language will become bloated and >> incomprehensible. > > Laura > > -- > Laura L. Carlson > http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/webdesign/ >
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