- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:30:36 +0000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: HTMLwg WG <public-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Joshue O Connor wrote: >> I don't like the idea (at all) of the use of elements that are perfectly >> legal throwing up warnings at all. People will be given the impression >> that they are doing something wrong, so this kind of approach could be >> counter productive as rather that reinforcing best practice through the >> stick approach, it could put people off using the element/attribute >> completely. > > Isn't that the idea? I mean, the whole point here is that they're not > "perfectly" legal, they're only legal to the extent that there are cases > where they are arguably useful, but in general they shouldn't be used. It is partially a case of poor implementation - if that is what you mean. The concept behind @longdesc etc was/is valid we just need to work out how to fit the needs of users and authors while future proofing the implementation. Cheers Josh
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