- From: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:46:26 +0200 (CEST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On 22 Aug, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> In this case then, using extensibility and namespacing, things like
> CompSci specific markup, as well as mathematical/chemical/etc
> specialised languages should be used, rather than keeping those very
> specific (in the case of samp,kbd,var) and those completely
> inappropriate (imho) elements (sub/sup) completely out of the generic
> language.
Or ...
- Use specialized languages for specialized purposes,
- Don't bother adding extensibility to (the) generic language(s);
it'll just make a complicated situation more complicated,
- Don't break HTML, repair it.
This started going silly when <menu> was taken out because it
"rendered like an ul". Granted, sup and sub and samp and goddess knows
what might not belong in HTML for various reasons - but we've got
them. Lets take out the things that /really/ shouldn't be there,
repair the bits we've got, and recreate a simple, but powerful,
generic language.
Not that I for a moment believe it.
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- Tina Holmboe Greytower Technologies
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Received on Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:46:39 UTC