- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:01:39 +0000
- To: public-html@w3.org
Dr. Olaf Hoffmann writes: > Tab Atkins Jr.: > > > 2010/1/19 Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>: > > > > > Well several members of the working group convinced me in the > > > previous discussions, that HTML5 is not the right place for > > > poetry, literature or text > > > > Could you point out where someone said this? That sounds > > ridiculous, > > Smylers: 'HTML is too rudimentary to mark up poems precisely -- among > many other things.' > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Feb/0392.html Hi Olaf. To clarify, I think that HTML5 is absolutely fine for marking up poetry, literature, and other text; I did not intend my quote above to be interpreted as an argument against that. I acknowledge that poems can't be marked up _precisely_ (that is, in a way which denotes lines and verses) with HTML5. But most instances of poems on webpages have no need of such fine-grained mark-up; in which case HTML5 does just fine. Apologies for any confusion. Smylers
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