- From: Shannon <shannon@arc.net.au>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:02:07 +1000
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Nicholas C. Zakas wrote: > >> From: Shannon <shannon at arc.net.au> >> >>>> Dnia 01-03-2008, So o godzinie 19:36 -0800, Nicholas C. Zakas pisze: >>>> >>>>> Perhaps it would better be named <callout/>? >>>>> >>>> "Aside" is customary in dialogue annotations, I have never seen any >>>> "callout". >>>> >>> Call it <note>. It may sound crude but it's hard to mistake its >>> meaning. >>> >> Oooh, I like that better. >> >> @Chris - I understand what an "aside" is, I just know for a fact that >> most people do not. Shannon's suggestion of "note" makes much more sense >> to me than my suggestion of "callout". >> >> Long live <note/>! >> > > <note> and <callout> aren't really generic enough. e.g. in HTML5 <aside> > would be used for both the notes and the examples in the spec, but <note> > would only sound like it was ok for the notes. > > I think web developers would prefer <pointless>, <distraction>, <wasteofspace> or <bossmademedoit>. Shannon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20080731/eb8e98f1/attachment.htm>
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