- From: Tom McDonnell <qirexrd@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 21:51:13 +0930
- To: www-html@w3.org
Having reviewed the latest Working Draft, I felt I must comment on the
Embedding Attribute Collection.
I don't see any need for the collection, the <object> element already
provides this functionality. Take the first example in the working draft:
<p src="holiday.png" type="image/png">
<span src="holiday.gif" type="image/gif">
An image of us on holiday.
</span>
</p>
Shouldn't this be done:
<object data="holiday.png" type="image/png">
<object data="holiday.gif" type="image/gif">
<p>An image of us on holiday</p>
</object>
</object>
Ditto can be applied to the table example.
I really feel the working drafts example is misuse of <p> element; the
collection is blurring the lines of the purpose of elements. The generic
<object> element was designed encapsulate fallback logic, so I cannot
understand why this new attribute collection has been introduced to serve
the same purpose. I suggest it be dropped.
Tom McDonnell
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Received on Thursday, 29 May 2003 08:26:23 UTC