l element (was: more xhtml 2.0 comments)

After a quite long IRC chat with fantasai and Ian Hickson, I finally see 
some interest in the l element.
Well, not really, since I still think ol/li and div are enough, but I 
can live with it :-)

I think the WD introduced a very big confusion speaking of lines: the l 
element represents, I quote the WD, "a single line of text". Some people 
read this line as "line of poetry" or "line of program", some others 
read it as "visual line".

So a line (l element) is not a line (of poetry) is not a line (well, a 
line).

I strongly recommend (a) a clarification of the definition of the l 
element (b) another name, this one being too confusing with 1 and i, and 
intrinsicly too confusing because a "line" has multiple meanings in 
English having different visual rendering (and that's not the case in 
other languages).

This element meant to serve as a replacement for <br/>, I still think it 
will too drastically complexify wysiwyg editors. I still totally 
disagree with the removal of <br/>.

comment crossposted to www-html-editor and Karl Dubost FHI.

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Received on Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:10:41 UTC