- From: Chad Owen Yoshikawa <chad@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 15:42:54 -0800 (PST)
- To: Neppster@compuserve.com (Patrick Nepper)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
> > On Wed, 02 Apr 1997 05:48:37 Paul Prescod wrote: > > >DIR and MENU have not found market acceptance >after several years. They > >should not even be in HTML 3.2 which was >supposed to describe "current > >practice." > > Am I wrong or is it a bad idea to remove DIR and MENU completely? > The difference between DIR, MENU and normal ULists has always been > its content. > If you want to automatically evaluate documents and for example search for > all docs containing DIRs or extract these DIRs, this job will be hard to > fulfill if you just > have ULs, where the tag says nothing about its content. > That's why I think it has been the right choice to have these tags in > Cougar (in my opinion > not only for backwards compatibility). I agree - I would like to see these tags remain. It's especially useful to know the author's intention (MENU vs another list) when trying to develop a stylesheet to display the content. -Chad Yoshikawa -- Finger me for my pgp public key Today's random buzzword: digital m-bone
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