- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 15:22:23 -0500
- To: www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
On 5/1/07, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au> wrote: > I agree with you in principle that HTML5 should not > encourage the further proliferation of purely presentational markup. > The separation of semantics and presentation is certainly a useful > goal, and is something we should strive for where practical [snip] > We can get the authoring requirements right this time around, but > defining authoring requirements that disallow the use of erroneous > markup, does not remove the requirements for user agents to support > it. We must not let our ideals about developing a good markup > language for authors get in the way of UA conformance criteria. > >> The /specification of a markup language/ should /not/ "support" bad >> practice. /Browsers/ should support bad practice. Yes. My take is that adding presentational elements and attributes to HTML 5 would be a step backwards for authoring. HTML 5 should promote the modeling the logical structure and semantics of information, not its presentation. Presentation is the job of CSS. Deprecate existing presentational markup while allowing it to gracefully degrade in user agents. When putting in any new 'features', do it in a way that older browsers and other user agents can still access basic content . Best Regards, Laura
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