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Re: proposed li:marker pseudo-class

From: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:53:58 +0100
Message-ID: <47F5D086.8000006@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
To: Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>
CC: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>, www-html@w3.org 

Ernest --

> What gets lost in the current quixotic quest 
> for the semantic web, is that at first HTML 
> wasn't all that semantic.  OL and UL were 
> but two flavors of list markup along with 
> MENU and DIR that were concerned far more 
> with the appearance than the semantics of 
> the markup.  

What is your evidence for this statement ?

What leads you to believe that appearance,
rather than semantics, were the intended
purpose of <OL> and <UL>

Philip TAYLOR
Received on Friday, 4 April 2008 06:54:26 GMT

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