- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:44:48 +0200
- To: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
Also sprach Murray Maloney:
> If you really want semantic markup, use XML or SGML.
These days, microformats built on top of HTML provide a better way to
encode semantics, I believe. The big bonus is that your documents are
usable by a billion browsers.
> It should be noted that we almost didn't have <span> to complement
> <div> because some members of the HTML WG thought that it was
> unnecessary to have both and there was no useful distinction
> between them. As I recall, the CSS camp thought that it would be
> better to codify the distinction on the CLASS attribute.
I remember fighting for the <c> element as a character-level
alternative to <p>. It was shot down by I18N concerns, I believe.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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