Re: Proposal for the deprecation of <blockquote>

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/

Received on Monday, 19 August 2013 07:20:02 UTC