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- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:08:29 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16026 Summary: This is general feedback on the overall standard, as far as I understand it. This is feedback from an average web user who knows a decent amount of fundamental HTML (primarily self-taught) who regularly uses it to varying degrees on various forums, blogs Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: Other URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: This is general feedback on the overall standard, as far as I understand it. This is feedback from an average web user who knows a decent amount of fundamental HTML (primarily self-taught) who regularly uses it to varying degrees on various forums, blogs, and personal webspace. Quite simply put, this standard seems in many ways to be unnecessarily biased towards integration with CSS, and is considerably more complicated and thus incredibly inaccessible to most average casual users of the web. For example, some of the formatting tags rendered obsolete such as "center" (or according to some sources, "u", though I could not find mention of it in this document) are extremely commonly used in blogging and on personal webspace. In the context in which many web users use these formatting tags is when they specifically want to format items WITHOUT or irregardless to CSS; the point is generally to make an EXCEPTION to a style, rather than to make a style. However, nearly all of this document as well as what is reported about the proposed seems to focus nearly exclusively on defining styles. It appears that it will be highly inaccessible to most casual users, where the current html standard has many tags that are simple and highly intuitive. I also wonder what will happen to the many blogging and other similar websites in which users have numerous entries that are already written making extensive use of now-deprecated formatting. I'm not certain whether this feedback will be truly heard, let along considered, but what I am able to understand of this is quite alarming, and I hope that you can take these concerns into consideration. As usage of the internet becomes increasingly prevalent, standards such as HTML ought to become /simpler/ whenever possible, rather than more obfuscated. Posted from: 76.113.201.119 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 -- Configure bugmail: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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