- From: Eduard Pascual <herenvardo@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 01:20:14 +0000
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Pentasis wrote: [...] >> As the <mark> element has different usages defined on it already why not >> include a "type" attribute (or similar) that defines what it is used >> for. One of these types would then be "footnote", others could be >> (relating to what is already in the spec) "term", "highlight" etc. (I am >> sure others would be much better at thinking up names than I am). > > That's what the "class" attribute is for. What's the difference then between <mark> and <span> then? I mean, does the <mark> element provide anything that <span> with an appropriate class wouldn't?
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