- From: Shelby Moore <shelby@coolpage.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:28:41 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
> Shelby Moore wrote: >> Now I know the XBL proponents want to think that if a <select> is >> implemented by XBL code as a list of <a> hyperlinks, then the semantics >> haven't changed because <select> is in the markup, not <a>s. But if I >> accepted that logic, then I can put on Halloween mask and tell everyone >> I >> am Modzilla, and that means it is true. We don't want to create an >> architecture for a "web of deception". Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > Actually, based on what you say in the beginning, the mask example would > be: you can put on a mask and act like Modzilla, but underneath you're > still Shelby (the <select> is putting on a mask of <a>s, but the > semantics in the markup still say it's a <select>). Precisely, which is the mask, the <select> or the <a>s? Either way it is deception. If the markup says I am <select>, and the implementation says I am list of <a>s, then what am I?? To markup consumers I am a <select> and to implementation consumers I am <a>s. That is conflation, deception, and obscurity! You said it better than I did! -- Kind Regards, Shelby Moore http://coolpage.com
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