What ever happened to <person>, <abbrev> etc. tags

Somewhere between 3.0 and 3.2 a bunch of 'logical' tags like <person> 
<abbrev> and <acronym> were removed.  Seems that they are useful, 
especially from the point of view of indexing and searching.  Even if 
UA's ignore them in terms of mark-up, it makes sense to keep them in 
the standard.

Also... what about the <tab> and <fn> tags? No plans for them either?

A suggested tag while I'm at it: something like <dated> .. </dated> 
to note that material between is dated:

  <dated expires="Tue Apr  1 20:00:00 1997 GMT">
  <p>Bilbo Baggins speaks in the Main Conference Room on
    the State of Middle Earth, Apr. 1 at 8pm.</p>
  </dated>

The UA could show expired (or not yet happened) content using a faded 
color (perhaps expired-text and future-text color attributes in the 
<body> tag?) or rendering the text as a lighter weight.

It's no excuse for not updating a page (and using CGI scripts is not
practical for every publisher), but 'visually' the reader can see 
that the content on the page is outdated.

Rob


Rob



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