Re: noted 3 issues re: time/data (was Re: minutes for HTML WG f2f, 2011-11-04, part 1) from Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com on 2011-11-10 (public-html@w3.org from November 2011)

From: Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com <mtanalin@yandex.ru>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:55:02 +0400
To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Cc: Tantek Celik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, public-html@w3.org
Message-Id: <178711320962103@web123.yandex.ru>

Do you really believe that existing markup like BLOCKQUOTE is really taken into account by machines? Let's use DIV/SPAN instead of all structural markup, really?


11.11.2011, 01:50, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com
> <mtanalin@yandex.ru> wrote:
>
>>  Most of real-world authors don't care about Atom. They just want to _add semantic sense_ to their HTML content. 'pubdate' attribute is part of this semantics and therefore should _not_ be dropped. Additionally, supplementary 'update' (or 'pubupdate') boolean attribute should be added to markup _update_ dates (see bug 14202, [2]).
>
> Unfortunately, this is nonsense.  Semantics are a way of communicating
> with machines, since they don't yet understand natural languages.  If
> there aren't any machines listening to the semantics, they're useless.
>
> ~TJ

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