- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:04:33 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > In the first example of the <bb> element the <bb> start tag has no > matching end tag, but instead a </a> end tag. Also, would it be worth > renaming the element to something more understandable? <bb> might simply > be a typo of <b>... (credit: sh). On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Philip Taylor wrote: > > It might indeed: > http://www.luxbed.ru/index.shtml > > It might also be a typo of <br>: > http://pages.prodigy.net/mbruland/TIFFANYS.htm > http://www.unifeeder.com/ > > (Those are three out of ~100K pages; new browsers sprouting buttons into > the middles of that many pages is presumably unacceptable, so presumably > either the element should be renamed or its rendering should be defined > so that <bb> (with no attributes) is visually a no-op.) Yeah, I don't love the name either. I'm open to ideas, but the problem is any descriptive name becomes quite unwieldy and unlike other names. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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