- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:50:23 -0500
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
Maciej Stachowiak wrote, quote: > This is gratuitously incompatible with HTML4.01, where the Q > element's CITE attribute is a URI. I don't think "harmony" > justifies breaking compatibility. unquote aloha, maciej - i wouldn't classify it as breaking compatibility, but as fixing an error in the 4.01 technical recommendation. if SRC is used to point to a target, everywhere else but in the Q element, wouldn't you consider that more than a lack of harmony, but an error? as long as there exists a CITE element, why not bring the cite attribute defined for Q in line with the meaning of CITE as expressed by the element named CITE. this isn't trivial nitpicking, it's identifying an error and attempting to address it, gregory. ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -- Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita, oedipus@hicom.net ----------------------------------------------------------------
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