- From: Toby A Inkster <mail@tobyinkster.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:27:48 +0100
Kristof Zelechovski wrote: > The goal of the specification is to provide a set of rules that > conformant > user agents must obey out of the box, without any extensions. > Features that > are supposed to be ignored do not make good candidates for > including in the > specification, except as extensions to HTML that are explicitly > supported. The HTML 5 spec already includes the many features which browsers currently (mostly) ignore - the <meta> tag, the "type" attribute on most links and so on. The fact that HTML includes a <dfn> element doesn't mean that every browser has to have a built in dictionary for storing all the definitions people collect on the web, but the element is there for those people who want to use it. Browsers *could* do something useful with <dfn> if they liked, but none so far seem to have done so. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail at tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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