- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:33:54 +0300
- To: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Jul 18, 2007, at 13:09, Ben Boyle wrote: > Does this solve real problem? Exactly what problem? Problem: There are well-supported and, to some people, useful elements in HTML 4.01 Transitional. It would be good to keep the stuff that is useful to (at least to some) people. But there are another group of people who, as a matter of principle, objects to including anything considered "presentational" in the spec. Solution: Tweak the definitions of the elements a bit to put semantic fig leaves on the previously "presentational" elements in the hope that the elements could make it past the second group of people. The solution has backfired politically as a large part of the group of people who object to putting "presentational" stuff in the spec seems to be very uncomfortable with *any* tweaking of semantics. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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