- From: Jens Meiert <jens.meiert@erde3.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 01:07:12 +0200 (MEST)
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
"Semantics" lexically is "the philosophical and scientific study of meaning" [1] (or try an analogy [2]). Cool. "Semantics in the domain of Web standards" not only seems to imply that elements (I'd narrow it to Markup languages) actually have got a meaning, but that they need to be used accordingly - everybody uses semantic Markup, but only a few use Markup according to its semantics (which is a problem). > To fulfill my action item, I passed around a pad of paper to a group > of nearly a dozen standardistas [...] I propose to ask specialists like e.g. Ian Hickson or Patrick Hayes for their thoughts on this subject. In a /serious/ context - that goes without saying. [1] http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9110293&query=semantics [2] http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Asemantics -- Jens Meiert Information Architect http://meiert.com/
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