Re: XHTML 2.0 - <line> or <l>?

Daniel Glazman wrote to www-html@w3.org on 29 December 2002 in
"XHTML 2.0 - <line> or <l>?"
(<mid:3E0AC6CA.9030307@netscape.com>):

> Seriously, XHTML 2.0 is said to get rid of presentational stuff, lead
> towards structure w/o thinking at the rendering, and it introduces an
> element called "line" (or "l" or whatever, what it represents *is*
> a line) ??? This is just crazy.

The name "line" may not be a great choice, but the element type in
question is a step away from presentation and toward structural
semantics.  As the 'section' type is to the 'hr' type, the 'line'/'l'
type is to the 'br' type.  

A 'line' element has an implication: "This text is to be taken as a
unit, with some meaning inferred from keeping it together.  (In visual
presentation, one line break should precede it and one line break
should follow it.)"   

-- 
Etan Wexler <mailto:ewexler@stickdog.com>

Received on Monday, 30 December 2002 11:29:44 UTC