- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:04:58 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Spec Prod <spec-prod@w3.org>, Geoffrey Sneddon <gsneddon@opera.com>
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Doug Schepers wrote: > > I started writing this up in the spec conventions document, but stalled > when I tried to provide a rationale for using these codes. I like the > idea of using @title, but aren't these values a bit cryptic for the > final output? > > For the authoring syntax, these may be short and convenient, but there > doesn't seem to much utility in presenting that to authors... couldn't > the processing script expand that into something a bit more... decoded? The intent is to switch to data-xref="" or something instead of title="" at some point, though that hasn't been a high priority. (Not sure if Anolis supports this yet.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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