On 7 Apr 2003 at 15:55, Masayasu wrote: > "Ernest Cline" <ernestcline@mindspring.com> wrote: > > > > If there > > were no earlier (X)HTML standards, I think that separator model would > > be clearly the superior. > > Back to 10+ years ago, <p> was an empty paragraph separator in HTML. > It was changed to a container element in HTML 2.0. Your argument > sounds like a step backwards. That ignores the fact that in HTML 2.0 there is no <div>. Without a generic block element such as div, a paragraph separator is clearly insufficient and hence the change for separator to container was an improvement in that context. By the time that <div> was added, support for <p> as a container was so widespread that reversing direction and making <p> be only a separator again was not possible nor desirable. Marking paragraph boundaries with separator should be done only with a formatting character and only if a generic block element exists. If no formatting character exists or if a generic block element does not exist, then markup is the only reasonable alternative.Received on Monday, 7 April 2003 11:12:02 GMT
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