Re: XHTML1.1 removes tabindex, accesskey and deprecated elements

Hello,

I'm one of the staff contacts for the HTML Working Group, so I will clarify
the issues.

Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org> wrote:

> I note that in Appendix A: Changes from XHTML 1.0
> 
>      http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/changes.html#a_changes

Unfortunately there's a bunch of editorial errors in this appendix.
I have pointed them out [1] and those errors will be fixed in the
next edition.

  [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html-editor/2000JanMar/0027

> 1. Drops from the anchor <a ...> the attributes   tabindex and accesskey.

This is editorial error, and actually those are not dropped, as
pointed out by [1].

> 2. XHTML1.1 drops support for the following element types. Most have been 
> deprecated in prior versions of HTML or XHTML1.0:
		<snip/>
>      object
		<snip/>
> The loss of object, with its list of alternative renderings, provided
> a default means to append as the last option a textual description of
> a non-textual object.

After long discussion, the object element has finally been included
in XHTML 1.1.  Steven Pemberton, the chair of the HTML WG, posted
the clarification to the www-html list [2].

  [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2000Jun/0017

Note that the HTML WG is committed to re-engineer the object inclusion
mechanism in XHTML 2.0.

Regards,
-- 
Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

Received on Wednesday, 6 September 2000 04:47:08 UTC