- From: Philip & Le Khanh <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 12:07:53 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > [...] After all, users want to access the content that > actually exists, not the content that /should/ be there. And no-one is suggesting stopping them, since what actually exists is either written in HTML <= 4.01 or in tag soup. But the remit of this group is /not/ to define how extant HTML should be processed, but rather to define how the next iteration of HTML should be written (and processed). And in so doing, the group should be informed by the errors of the past. The received wisdom at the time that the HTML 4.01 spec. was published was that the language should be primarily semantic rather than presentational : it is my belief (and that of some other members of this list) that the WHATWG failed to ascribe sufficient weight to that wisdom, and instead reverted to an earlier presentational paradigm, with its concomitant loss of precision and accessibility. Philip Taylor
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