- From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 05:47:01 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
Once upon a time Robert Rothenburg 'Walking-Owl' shaped the electrons to say... >Somewhere between 3.0 and 3.2 a bunch of 'logical' tags like <person> ><abbrev> and <acronym> were removed. Seems that they are useful, Don't remember person, but at WWW6 I had some long talks with folks like Chris Lilley - he was interested in this idea. Especially from the point of view of accessability. Something like this: <ACRONYM TITLE="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</ACRONYM> Would be displayed as 'HTML' on a visual browser, but could be read aloud for the blind in full. Actually after the conversations I've been giving the general concept quite a bit of thought and I have some early ideas... It would be nice to be able to define replacement values in a Style sheet so you didn't have to type it out all over. I need some time to work it out, but I told Chris I'd get back to him as soon as I can with more meat on the idea... >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? tab is obsolete with CSS IMHO. <fn> would be nice, but with the DOM (Document Object Model) being developed this could be done programatically with popups, floating help, etc. >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> "More tags is bad" - remember that. :-) This would definitely be addressed with the DOM - conditional display is a trivial case for that. -MZ -- Livingston Enterprises - Chair, Department of Interstitial Affairs Phone: 800-458-9966 510-426-0770 FAX: 510-426-8951 megazone@livingston.com For support requests: support@livingston.com <http://www.livingston.com/> Snail mail: 4464 Willow Road, Pleasanton, CA 94588
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