- From: Nigel Peck - MIS Web Design <nigel@miswebdesign.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:44:00 -0000
- To: "Mikko Rantalainen" <mira@cc.jyu.fi>, <www-html@w3.org>
Mikko wrote: > As you mentioned Perl, it came to my mind that Perl has aliases for the > short forms. How about recommending the use of "l" element, but it would > be equivalent with "line" element? Possible problems with this method > are that (a) user agent and user default style sheets would need to > specify same rendering for both element names (this one isn't a big > problem really) and (b) structurally equivalent documents could look > different with the same CSS applied if part of the CSS only had rules > for "l" but no rules for "line" or the other way around. Sounds like a good idea to me, only thought is that it might open the door for suggestions of "let's have a <paragraph> and a <p>", "let's have a <strong> and an <s>" etc. etc. which would compound both of the problems you highlighted. For this reason I would suggest probably best choosing one or the other, to keep it simple. Nigel MIS Web Design http://www.miswebdesign.com/
Received on Thursday, 2 January 2003 08:43:24 UTC