- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:37:11 +0200
- To: "Mike Brown" <mike@skew.org>
- Cc: David Håsäther <hasather@gmail.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, public-html@w3.org
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:10:14 +0200, Mike Brown <mike@skew.org> wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> On the other hand, everyone is using the term entities already. What's >> so wrong with that in the context of HTML? > > I understand this point of view, I mean it's difficult to get people to > even append "reference" to "entity" and distinguish between those > concepts, let alone differentiate entities from characters. Another > example might be the terms URL, URI, and URI reference. > > However, "everyone is using the term entities already" also sounds a lot > like "Everyone is using <font> already. Let's just put it in HTML 3", or > perhaps "No one reads the specs, so it doesn't matter what goes in this > one". There is some harm in people using <font> for marking up headers and such. I'm not sure what the harm is in calling these things entities. However, I don't really feel strongly either way. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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