- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 17:48:50 -0500
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
Related blog post: http://juicystudio.com/article/html-scope-headers-debate.php Comment from HTML 5 editor, Ian Hickson: http://juicystudio.com/article/html-scope-headers-debate.php#comment8 > I have to be clear. > We are not going to have semantics for everything. If something is > rare, then it won't be supported. It really is that simple. This is > about achieving the 80% common case, it's not about making a language > that does everything. There are hundreds of things that people have > asked for which are not included because right now they simply don't > have the demand. For example, there's no way to mark up the > relationship between two SPAN elements containing the name of a lion > and the name of its kitten. There's no way to mark up the > relationship between two numbers in a big table (e.g. "that number is > twice this number"). If the occurrences of such tables are rare, > then that, on its own, is an argument against this feature. > > We have to have this razor, this restraint in adding features, > because otherwise our language will become bloated and > incomprehensible. Laura -- Laura L. Carlson http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/webdesign/
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