- From: Nir Dagan <nir@nirdagan.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 06:02:51 GMT
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
I am not a supporter for using WAI defined classes for semantics, or for inventing special anchor names. In my view, if WAI wants to add semantics to HTML, it should propose new elements (or attributes) to extend HTML4.0. These elements should degrade gracefully to HTML4.0 browsers. E.g., a block level element NAVBAR with content %block; is fine with me. This is better than giving semantics to the class attribute in contradiction to the HTML spec. after people have been using it for more than two years, and accidentally may have used one of the WAI classes. With named anchors there is the same problems but also an additional one: When I write a website I choose the URLs and fragment identifiers to have some meaning in the human language of the document. It makes is easier to remember URLs or understand where links go to by looking at the status bar. That's one reason why XML allows ID to have non-ascii characters. If you define a recommended anchor name, in what language should it be written? Nir Dagan, Ph.D. http://www.nirdagan.com mailto:nir@nirdagan.com "There is nothing quite so practical as a good theory." -- A. Einstein
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