- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 17:47:03 +0900
- To: w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org, w3c-wai-au@w3.org
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
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