- From: <JOrendorff@ixl.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 01:32:50 -0400
- To: www-html-editor@w3.org
The elements <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, and <var> should be factored out into their own module, perhaps a Computing module. These elements serve a very special interest. No other elements in XHTML have such limited appeal. I think this argues for a separate module. According to Section 1.3.1, of the XHTML Modularization WD, "A abstract module defines one kind of data that is semantically different from all others." There is a clear semantic distinction here. All the other elements in the Basic Text module are general-purpose. These four elements definitely are not. Documents that could legitimately use these tags are a small fraction of the content of the Web, and the fraction is decreasing daily. The new module could live in the "Text Extension Modules" part of the XHTML Modularization spec (currently Section 4.4). -- Yours sincerely, Jason Orendorff http://www.alarmist.org/
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