- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:55:59 +0200
- To: Samuel Santos <samaxes@gmail.com>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>, HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
Samuel Santos wrote: > When writing technical HTML documents, I often feel a need for an element to > represent a path or a file in the file system. But I couldn't find any > semantically correct element to do this. > > I usually use <em class="filesystem">C:\foo\bar</em> but it just feels > wrong... > > Is it worthy to have another HTML element like <filesystem> (I'm not sure if > this is the better name for the element) to represent a path (e.g. > C:\foo\bar) or a file name (e.g. README.txt)? The spec states (emphasis added): The code element represents a fragment of computer code. This could be an XML element name, a *filename*, a computer program, or any other string that a computer would recognise. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-code -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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