RE: ISSUE-90 - Removing the figure Element - Straw Poll for Objections

On Wed, 19 May 2010, Larry Masinter wrote:
> 
> It isn't "Larry's concern", it's a concern which should be shared by any 
> responsible group working on standards.

It's already handled by the W3C process, at the CR stage, not the LC 
stage.


> It isn't a "delete", its holding off on adding something until the 
> specification and implementations are baked and "match reality" -- a 
> threshold which has been applied liberally to HTML4 features which 
> actually *have* been deleted.

HTML4 never went through the CR stage, hence why we're having to do it 
now.

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