- From: Nicholas Shanks <contact@nickshanks.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:08:16 +0000
On 23 Mar 2007, at 13:17, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:40:47 +0100, Nicholas Shanks > <contact at nickshanks.com> wrote: >> Mostly unused, not even deprecated, these elements bloat the spec, >> confuse lay authors (i.e. those not of a computer science background) >> and I feel would be better represented by a custom XML vocabulary. > > How does that help anyone? Putting them in a custom XML vocabulary > drops all semantics directly. (Unless a search engine does some > heuristics on element names I suppose.) Custom XML vocabularies are > really not something you want to have on the web as its implied > they have no known semantics. Not true. XHTML, MathML and SVG are all custom vocabularies with very widely known semantics. There's nothing preventing a future "CodeML" syntax from being understood by Koders and Google Code Search. - Nicholas. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2157 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20070323/a820771d/attachment.bin>
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