- From: Shane McCarron <xhtml2-issues@hades.mn.aptest.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:32:25 -0600 (CST)
- To: sjoerd@w3future.com
- Cc: www-html-editor@w3.org
The working group understands that there is an opportunity for abuse of the separator element, just as there is with many elements. This is not a compelling reason to remove the element. We will, however, remove the example from the nl element - it is definitely an abuse. > Hi, > > With the recent separator discussion on www-html I was more or less > convinced by others that a separator is needed to markup some books. > > But in the new WD I see this example: > > <nl> > <lable>Navigation</label> > <li href="/">Home</li> > <li><separator/></li> > <li href="prev">Previous</li> > <li href="..">Up</li> > <li href="next">Next</li> > </nl> > > This an absolute abuse of the element, and the reason why I was against > it in the first place. The semantics of separator in this example cannot > be united with the other example of a separator between two paragraphs. > > I now think that the chance for abuse is too big, and the number of > cases where separator has real use is too small. So separator should be > dropped. > > What this example also shows is that the nl stucture is unsuited for > popup-menus, because menus contain grouped items. > > -- > Sjoerd Visscher > http://w3future.com/weblog/ > > > > -- > Sjoerd Visscher > http://w3future.com/weblog/ > >
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