- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 02:55:58 -0300
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Maciej Stachowiak<mjs@apple.com> wrote: > > (Additional comments are personal feedback only.) > > On Aug 31, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > >> Great feedback Maciej, >> >> At mozilla we have yet to do a detailed review of the new elements, so >> I can't give as detailed feedback at the time. However it feels like I >> personally generally agree. Some comments and cases I didn't agree >> with below: >> >>> - <dialog> element >>> This essentially gives the same behavior as <dl> but with appropriate >>> semantics for logs of conversations. It seems useful and easy to >>> implement. >> >> Useful for what? I don't yet understand what anyone needs this element >> for. > > One example would be markup for a chat log. I'm personally not sure it adds > a lot of value for this case, but I'm not sure if there is an existing good > way to mark up logs of conversations, and it seems like a fairly common use > case. What use is marking up a chat log? What value does it add? > I don't feel strongly about this, but it doesn't seem like > implementing it would be a problem. Indeed, implementing <dialog> in a browser is trivial. A feature that isn't used, or mostly used wrongly, still adds a cost (spec bloat, tutorial bloat, author confusion, name collisions with future features etc), my concern is purely that. / Jonas
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