threads of importance to WAI activities on public-html

aloha, all!

durinng today's PF telecon, i refered to quote throwing some ideas 
against the wall since i joined the HTML WG to see if they stick 
unquote - here is a short list of the beginning of the threads i 
started on public-html@w3.org, with issues which i had previously 
brought up on the w3c-wai-pf mailing list, save for my proposal 
to deprecate BLOCKQUOTE in favor of a single QUOTE element, which 
could be used inline and as a block element, in line with the 
HTML4x recommendation's definitions of the INS and DEL elements:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/text.html#h-
9.4>

i also added to the quote and abbreviations posts, suggestions for 
strenghthening the for/id binding to provide a reuse mechanism, 
and even suggested that one might create an RDF file, containing 
abbreviations and expansions which could be applied site-wide 
and relieve the author of the burden of expanding every abbreviation 
instance, and make it possible for authoring tools to prompt the 
author, when he or she uses abbreviation markup, to add an 
expansion on the fly (which would be automagically added to the 
site-wide definition list) or to associate it with a pre-existing 
expansion.  (yes, i know that ABBR and ACRONYM are supposed to 
be quote reuseable unquote, but that skirts the question of what 
does one do when one has identical abbreviations that mean different
things, such as Dr. - in english, it can be expanded to Doctor or 
Drive, just as St. can be expanded to both Street and Saint - and 
ADA - if one is writing about the American Dental Associations' 
guidelines on treating persons with AIDS in compliance with the 
Americans with Disabilities Act, there will be 2 discrete instances 
of the ACRONYM quote ADA unquote, and this is the type of 
situation which is not adequately expressed in the HTML4x 
technical recommendation)

since the HTML WG works in public, rather than member space, i'm 
posting this to XTECH, as the issues involved affect all of WAI's 
activities...

comments, corrections, criticism and additions welcome,
gregory.

---- Begin List of Threads on public-html ----
1. abbreviations in canonical HTML/XHTML
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/0065.html>

2. strenghtening and ensuring the existence of Q
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/0066.html>

3. an arguement for deprecating BLOCKQUOTE
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/0102.html>

4.  depracate HR and replace with LS (logical seperator)
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/0099.html>
---- End List of Threads on public-html ----

gregory.
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