- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:13:13 +0100
- To: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
At 11:17 -0500 29/06/09, Shelley Powers wrote: > >> Wouldn't another set of actions be a stronger clarification in the >>> HTML 5 specification about how the attribute is to be used? Isn't that >>> just as viable an action to take based on the concern? >> > > If the hypothesis is that summary is "irrecoverably polluted", >which is what >> I wrote, then clarification of how we'd hoped it would have been used >> instead, is rather backwards-looking, isn't it? >> > >But can't we make the same claim about most of the web, and hence most >web elements? After all, HTML tables are "irrecoverably polluted" if >one examines the data that Philip derived. No, by "irrecoverably polluted" I mean a state in which the useless so dramatically outnumbers the useful that no-one bothers to use the facility in question any more, since they have no expectation of finding anything useful. A close analogy would be email without spam filters; if I got of the order of 5,000 emails a week and had to sift those for the 5 or so that are 'real', I might not bother. (Yes, one of my accounts is that low-volume, as it happens, but it also has an excellent ISP spam filter, happily). -- David Singer Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.
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