On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Stuart Ballard wrote: >By the same logic, you might also want to remove the semantics of <head> >versus <body> altogether in favor of just setting display:none on all >the elements that traditionally live in <head>. But the head *is* supposed to have special semantics, even if not currently applied. I believe the original intent was to have data in the head section served on an HTTP HEAD request. What this does *not* explain is why the same elements aren't permitted inside HEAD and BODY. >I don't necessarily think <body> should be deprecated, but I do think it's >inconsistent to keep it around if it isn't going to act as the root of >what really gets rendered. If it is, on the other hand, the recommendation >to use it for specifying background styles should stand. I don't really see a reason not to treat all XML/SGML elements as equal with respect to style languages. There are a whole lot of useful things one can do if this is the case, and the distinction between elements rendered and not rendered is artificial at best -- there are many instances where one might want to render information in the head only. Following this logic, it is just a convention that only the body is shown to the user, and there is no reason why someone couldn't need both head and body data to be shown no a background defined for the document root, html. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:decoy@iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2Received on Friday, 28 September 2001 20:54:39 GMT
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