- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:19:30 +0300
- To: Heydon Pickering <heydon@heydonworks.com>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Heydon Pickering <heydon@heydonworks.com> wrote: >>They don't need to. Semantics on that level of detail don't matter. If > semantics of that level of detail fall in the forest, no one is there > to hear it. > > Perhaps you could explain, in this case, why so many discussions have taken > place on the subject for such a long time Because the thinking of the semantics for the sake of semantics (as in more semantics the better, since semantics are good) as opposed to thinking of semantics as a way of getting someone else's receiving software to exhibit some commonly useful behavior is a common trap for people to fall into. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@hsivonen.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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