- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:01:25 -0600
- To: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
- Cc: dwm@shell.portal.com, html-wg@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> |#3.The third solution is actually pretty nice, I think. We can require all |new elements to _contain_ a NOXYZ tag. So if we go back in time and were |recreating HR, it would be --- Unless I'm missing something, this only helps if there's a single spec for the given element. That is, a TABLE/NOTABLE distinction doesn't help if there are Netscape 1.2 tables and Netscape 2 tables and HTML 2+ tables and HTML 3 tables and... WIth marked sections you don't have to depend on distinguishable element tags, but can have a richer set of feature test names. I'm inclined to believe that this is mostly a transitory problem - that a couple of years from now the "core" functionality will cover a much larger part of the space and the divergences will be for historical support and for stuff that is much further away from common requirements. I'd go further - I'd say that if that isn't true, we will have lost and something significanly different will be emerging to replace the whole mess. Perhaps handing the lead to W3C will make that coalescence happen... scott -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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