- From: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:53:13 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
Note, that dl with only dt or dd as children is sometimes used in HTML4 to markup poems or song texts with a somehow useful structure (as already detailed in the wiki). This seems to be excluded in HTML5 too, but anyway in the current draft most elements seem to be restricted anyway to prose content excluding any poetry. All this may already indicate, that the general new idea is, to make a lot of HTML4 content non-conforming in HTML5 to restrict authors which ideas they can express and how they can express them in HTML5. It does not really fit to the 'HTML Design Principle' of backwards compatibility ... http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-html-design-principles-20071126/#compatibility The question here is maybe, does it solve a real problem to constrain authors not to use specific methods to express their ideas? Or does it create new real problems? http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-html-design-principles-20071126/#solve-real-problems
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