- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 16:52:37 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Henri Sivonen wrote: >> It's /really/ not difficult to explain to someone that a stretch >> of text is to be emboldened /for a reason/. > > It doesn't follow that authors feel the need to make the reason explicit > in the data format. No, they don't feel the need; that is why accessibility remains such a problem on the web. Our challenge is to ensure that they /do/ feel the need, and the simplest way of achieving this is by removing the <b> button and offering a simple way of introducing semantic markup in its place. > Previously, you have shown what looked like hostility towards taking the > browser vendor point of view as serious real-world constraints > (http://www.w3.org/mid/46361DDB.4040203@Rhul.Ac.Uk). > Now you seem to be willing to ignore the needs of the WYSIWYG editor > writers. Who do you expect to implement your vision? If it is solely my vision, then either myself or no-one. Since there would be little point my creating a tool that no-one else would use, then in reality no-one. But I am not asking anyone to implement my vision : I am asking this group to /consider/ my vision (which I am certain that others share), and ask themselves whether it represents /their/ vision of what HTML (and the web) should be. If they /do/ agree that it is closer to their vision than the current WHATWG proposals, then all I ask is that they offer support for the ideas. Once we can agree on what the best route forward is, we will be in a better position to liaise with browser implementors, editor implementors and so on. At the moment, the WHATWG position seems to place far more importance on maintaining the /status quo/ than it does on identifying a worthwhile aim for the future. My hostility (if it is really that : I see it more as frustration) is aimed at that position rather than at any group of individuals. Philip Taylor
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