- From: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:30:23 -0500
- To: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Cc: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com>, public-html@w3.org
On Jul 20, 2007, at 2:24 AM, Robert Burns wrote: > > > On Jul 20, 2007, at 1:55 AM, Thomas Broyer wrote: >> >> Er, aren't you the man calling for "avoiding changing the meaning of >> HTML4 elements because it creates namespace collisions"? >> >> And you're proposing: >> - adding a *required* attribute >> - changing the definition of DFN to contain the definition rather >> than the term (and then introducing <TERM> instead) > > Touché on the required attribute. That would relate to one of the > type 2 name collision issues (though I've tried to say that I think > the type 1 is so much more important than the other). On your > second bullet point, that is the ambiguity that HTML5 and I am > trying to address. The draft mostly treats <dfn> as the definition > and not the term (though there are places in the draft that seem to > reverse that). Incidentally, the need to add two new elements to the proposal: e.g., <definition> and <term> solves the problem with the added required attribute since we're not messing with the existing named elements at all (except to deprecate <dfn>). Take care, Rob
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