Re: Worthless crap in 3.0? (was Re: HTML4.0 draft: comments
Rob (wlkngowl@unix.asb.com)
Thu, 11 Sep 1997 02:22:47 -0500
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From: "Rob" <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>, www-html@w3.org
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 02:22:47 -0500
Subject: Re: Worthless crap in 3.0? (was Re: HTML4.0 draft: comments
On 10 Sep 97, Liam Quinn wrote:
> >I don't think it was worthless crap at all (things like ABBREV,
> >PERSON, AU) just not well thought out.
>
> Can you give some examples of HTML 3.0 elements or attributes that were
> "not well thought out"? I believe INPUT TYPE=scribble was mentioned as
As in the above-mentioned: ABBREV, ACRONYM, PERSON, AU and a couple
of other 'meta' or informational elements are nice ideas but poorly
thought out. A set of dictionary-elements that can point out proper
names or special words for indexers and speech synthesizers and
possibly add (pop-up?) definitions or elaborations is needed.
> [..]
> left to style sheets. Footnotes [1], captions [2], credits [3], notes
> [4], and range inputs [5] are all HTML 3.0 features that would be very
> useful to have today. Structurally, HTML 3.0 had a lot of good ideas that
> didn't deserve to die.
I agree with most of the above.
Rob
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