Re: code, samp, kbd, var

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:33:14PM +1000, Lachlan Hunt wrote:

> >Or have someone officially redefined HTML as a presentational language
> >while I was looking the other way?
> 
> No, but we have to strike an appropriate balance between a strict 
> separation of presentation and semantics, and having a set of useful and 
> practical elements.

  So HTML 5 should, as opposed to HTML 4, become a *mix* of a presentational
  and structural language?

  Frankly, I wish you'd try to see the other side of this debate, Lachlan. I
  have, since 1995, taught people that HTML is a *structural* language and
  we are gaining ground. Slowly, perhaps, but we are getting there, and as
  others have pointed out: it is /improving/* accessibility.

  HTML 5 is going to turn that upside down - and, yes, I do admit that I
  am slightly bitter that twelve years of trying to impart something of
  structure, semantics, and accessibility is going to be tossed down the
  drain for the sake of, frankly, misguided 'pragmatism'.




  *
   Sorry. You'll all just have to learn to live with all the presentational
   markup in my e-mails. Alternatively you could have the courtesy of not
   putting IRC logs online when spending time dissing opponents.

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