- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:26:32 +1000
- To: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
Hi, Several people have stated that the <br/> example for the Pave the Cowpaths principle isn't very good, and is perhaps a little confusing. I suggest that it should be improved and that there should be an additional example added. Since pave the cowpaths is really about solving problems and use cases related to existing practices, the <br/> principle should be reworded like this: Many authors have adopted the XHTML syntax for empty elements and the practice of including the trailing slash is now quite common. In order to assist with the transition from XHTML 1.0 to HTML5 in the future, the trailing slash has been permitted because it is harmless and forbidding it would require many authors to make many changes that have no practical benefit. An additional example should also be added, which demonstrates how a use case (or cowpath) can be paved using an alternative solution to that which is widely deployed. Many authors have begun publishing video on the web and providing custom controls. Existing solutions make use of proprietary technologies like Flash to achieve this result. HTML5 has introduced the <video> element to allow easy embedding of videos with a comprehensive API for scripts to provide custom controls. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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