- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:43:29 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 06:31:52PM +0300, Henri Sivonen wrote: > You seem to be assuming that semantic markup is good for the sake of > semantics. I see semantic markup as merely a means to achieve media > independence. The reality is that normal people don't want to encode > the reason why they italicized something. They just want to select > some text, hit ctrl-i or command-i and be done with it. So "normal people" doesn't care about semantics or media independance. Is the next version of HTML going to be a semantic markup language (like its predecessor) for people who want to write media independent documents or a presentational language with scripting for "normal people"? If the latter then we can ditch everything except <div>, <img>, <b>, <i>, <a>, <script> and <font>. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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