- From: Cory Sand <yrocsand@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 07:19:10 -0500
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> 2014-12-05, 11:41, Jens Oliver Meiert wrote:
>
> Has there ever been a discussion about a dedicated element for ads, like
>> <ad>?
>>
>
> Probably. What specific purposes would it serve?
>
Yes. This question has been addressed in the rationale section of the wiki,
here
<https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Rationale#Why_isn.E2.80.99t_there_a_dedicated_element_for_advertisements.3F_.28e.g..2C_.3Cad.3E.2C_or_.3Cadvert.3E.2C_or_.3Cbanner.3E.2C_or_whatever.29>
.
>
> The most obvious way of utilizing such markup, assuming it were commonly
> used, would be to have
>
> ad { display: none }
>
> in a user style sheet. I think this suffices to show why such markup would
> not be used.
>
Yup, that's about the size of it, and why the proposal was rejected.
Cory
>
> Yucca
>
>
>
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