- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:05:16 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Justin James wrote: > > I really think that answer completely ignores the fundamental issue that > these folks have. To make it clear, they are extremely angry that the > *current* HTML efforts ignore this kind of work. They want a way to do > things in a valid, conforming, and "approved" fashion in a current > standard, that does not require all sorts of hoops to jump through. > > Like I said, I don't expect anything to come of this in this group. But > I can tell you that many parts of the public "at large" is pretty > unhappy with the direction HTML has been headed in, because they feel > that it has lost its focus on creating documents in favor of becoming an > application platform. The move away from <font> and towards CSS really happened long before HTML became an application platform and frankly is quite orthogonal to it. Media-specific presentional markup has numerous problems when used for documents: - poor accessibility for users of other media - high maintenance cost - high file sizes - minimal file reuse, leading to poor caching The user and authoring experience is significantly better when using media-independent HTML elements and CSS. All this was already well understood in the late 90s when HTML4 deprecated presentational markup. It's not like this is a sudden change in HTML5. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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