- From: Nicholas Shanks <contact@nickshanks.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 15:05:53 +0200
On 2 Apr 2008, at 12:43 pm, Daniel Glazman wrote: > Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > >> I don't know what use this observation is. Maybe it means <ins>, >> <del>, >> and <mark> shouldn't be HTML elements, but should be something else >> instead. > > Excellent post. I concur. Excellent summary of how these elements are not hierarchical, but overlaid over the content of the document. The only way I can see to have these in a well-formed DOM is by using empty elements for both the start and end. <p>?<ins-start/>?</p><p>?<ins-end/>?</p> However, that said, I believe more strongly that the ins, del and mark are metadata about the document, not specifically *part* of the document, and as such, perhaps they need to be moved completely out of flow, either into the <head> or into an auxiliary metadata file. They are seldom used AFAICT, not being mentioned on [1], and I think there is a valid reason for this lack of use which should be addressed. Are the elements necessary in HTML, should the information they convey be specified in another manner completely? [1] http://code.google.com/webstats/ ? Nicholas Shanks. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2427 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20080402/18a8e32e/attachment.bin>
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