- From: Ca Phun Ung <caphun@yelotofu.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:11:44 +0800
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: WHAT working group <whatwg@whatwg.org>, 'HTML WG Public List' <public-html@w3.org>, www-html@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >> Ian Hickson wrote: >> >>> Is there any advantage to marking up people's names? >>> >> Not really. As there is no way to distinquish two people sharing the >> same name. Furthermore, it would only be useful for the few who "love >> semantics", since names are typically not rendered any different from >> other paragraph text. >> OK, then please explain why the XFN and Microformats movement hit center stage if there is no advantage in marking up people's names? It's not only useful to those who "love semantics" but also websites that are not Latin based, i.e. Chinese and Japanese. In Chinese names are traditionally distinguished with a underline to indicate it is in fact a name, this has been the case for thousands of years, otherwise it is hard for the reader to distinguish meaning because a person's name is usually taken from common words, such as "dragon", "peace", "gold", "clever" etc.
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