- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 14:14:20 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
David Woolley wrote: >> Let the creation of dialects be so simple that each discipline >> can generate its own, without needing to burden core HTML > > This is div/span HTML, which I don't believe that you want. It's about finding a subset that is generic enough, without being too generic...which, admittedly, is no small endeavour. > But, at least for var, I would suggest that most authors ought to use at > various times. I'd also suggest that at least half authors writing in a > commercial context will need to use the kbd and sample concepts at some > time. The argument brought against subdivision of different cases of <i>, however, was: do authors today actually bother doing this? Yes, they ought to, and I myself try to use them...but applying the same logic and burden of proof that the WG seems to place on those other elements, that's not enough. Again, I think this is more about arguing the arbitrary process used, not necessarily those elements themselves. > Exactly, but that does affect how authors use HTML, and you are making a > case in terms of how they actually use HTML, rather than how they should > use it. > If you exclude semantic elements simply because few people use them when > the context demands, one does, pretty much, end up with presentational > HTML. That's the argument that's prevailed on this list in those other discussions. That, and how WYSIWYG tools could never force authors towards using clearer semantics. P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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