- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:11:56 +0200
On Nov 5, 2008, at 10:46, Pentasis wrote: > <var> is the best example I think. Why <var> but not <function> > <operator> <operand> etc. etc. etc.? And if code gets this attention > why not language? (<verb>, <noun> etc. etc.) If we do it like that > it would never work. <var>, <cite> and <dfn> (and, one might argue, <em>) are legacy elements flowing out of a desire to replace <i> with something "semantic". Since the elements are part of the HTML legacy, there isn't a great rationale that would justify their inclusion today if they had never been in HTML and were proposed as new elements now. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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