- From: Philip TAYLOR [PC87S/O-XP] <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 18:09:26 +0100
- To: Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Ernest Cline wrote: [snip] > Unfortunately, we have an undesireable side effect of the fact that the > people most interested in what to put in XHTML 2 are computer > programming geeks. (Myself included.) The code, kbd, var and samp > elements are too narrow in scope for a general purpose hypertext markup > language. Adding blockcode was step backwards in my opinion because as > Christoph pointed out, adding blockcode only makes sense if blocksamp > (and blockkbd) are added as well. They are useful elements, but they > belong in a separate CompML (similar to MathML) not as part of XHTML2. > > If one takes a look at real world usage of (X)HTML , the four existing > computing markup elememts are some of the least used, because so few > HTML pages deal with computing. If I were the XHTML2 dictator, then > these four elements would be the first to be purged. Hear hear. For far too long, HTML has been unnecessarily bloated by these Neanderthal elements; let's make XHTML lean and mean, not gross and corpulent. Philip Taylor, RHBNC
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