Re: Underline element.

On Jan 14, 2008 6:16 PM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Olivier GENDRIN wrote:
>
> > If we care about waving underlines for chinese, we could also care to
> > have a cartouche around names in old egyptian...
>
> or to be able to render pages in Boustrophedon style ?
>
> Come on, Olivier, Chinese is a living language that
> is used daily by over one billion people; surely it
> is not too much to ask that their needs are recognised,
> rather than being cavalierly dismissed by comparing
> them to the needs of a society that existed thousands
> of years ago ...
>
> Philip TAYLOR

Anyway, this is presentation, so it has to be handled by UA or CSS,
not by the HTML 5 specification. We just have to give them a tool to
guess that 'this is a name'. And this is the only question that is in
scope of the WG.

-- 
Olivier G.
http://www.lespacedunmatin.info/blog/

Received on Monday, 14 January 2008 17:31:10 UTC