2010-03-26 20:06, Shelley Powers skrev: > Currently, the Idioms section[1] contains suggested markup and CSS to > create a web page tag cloud, a conversation, and footnotes. This > section is only suggested markup: there are no author or > implementation conformance requirements, no new attributes or elements > introduced, and no changes to either HTML/XHTML syntax, or the DOM. It > is nothing more than the HTML5 Editor's suggestion about what people > can use. > > According to the HTML5 Editor, Ian Hickson, the rationale[2] given for > keeping this section is: > > This section was added at the request of authors who wanted to > know what the spec suggested for the topics it mentions. Therefore > removing it would be doing authors a disservice, and authors take > priority. While I do not think this information necessary belongs in the spec (and thus in essence agree with Shelley) I distinctly remember the discussions that led to these passages. There were suggestions about a footnote element, special markup for tag clouds, etc. For a great while it seemed that we were going to have a dialog element. Thus, the "request" in question is perhaps not explicit, but a consequence of these proposals. It was thought that they would be looking at the spec to get answers to questions like "how can I make a footnote" or "how would I mark up a dialogue". Perhaps the spec could have a section about elements that at one time or another were suggested, but have been rejected or postponed to a future version and a link to a wiki or something else? -- Lars Gunther http://keryx.se/ http://twitter.com/itpastorn/ http://itpastorn.blogspot.com/Received on Sunday, 28 March 2010 17:25:56 UTC
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