Re: fear of "invisible metadata"

Le 26 juin 2007 à 02:01, Sander Tekelenburg a écrit :
> So in HTML5 classid, codebase, codetype, archive, declare and  
> standby are all
> gone for good? I mean, <img> doesn't exactly seem to have rid  
> itself of
> longdesc just yet, judging by the discussions. So who knows how  
> <object> will
> end up. But yeah, if <object> is simplified in HTML5, that's  
> certainly an
> improvement.

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-object

> Sorry, but although that does seem better than what HTML 4 says, I  
> cannot
> imagine this is clear language to authors. "*treated* as an image"? A
> "browsing context"?

I think we would have a lot better use of our times by writing the  
semantics definition of each element from the point of view of the  
author.

For example, Sander, How would you write the HTML 5 object element as  
defined in the specification but for authors. Extracting from the  
definition what is necessary to know for an author. I think that  
would help a lot.

Could you do it it here in the email?



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