- From: Jukka Korpela <jkorpela@cc.hut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 09:36:44 +0200 (EET)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Ian Hickson wrote: > What we need are a few additions to section 9.2.1, like > <MORE> Indicates means for getting further information on the topic > discussed. > <COMMENT> Indicates text which comments on adjacent paragraphs. I agree, but I'm afraid we are in the minority. I first thought those elements would have essentially the same semantics. On second thought, probably not. The use of <MORE> would indicate some kind of digression from the main theme, giving more information about some topic to those especially interested or especially in need of information; typically, but not necessarily, <MORE> would provide links to separate documents for additional information. Thus, <MORE> would serve better the intentions of an author who nowadays uses <SMALL>. Naturally, the implementation need not involves the use of a smaller font. (True digressions, such as saying somethink really off-topic, would probably deserve an element of their own.) On the other hand, <COMMENT> might present the author's comments on a preceding <BLOCKQUOTE>, or it could be used to describe a discussion. But perhaps <COMMENT> should be more structured, so that it would be a really block-like element, the content of which consists of the commented and the comment, to make it clear what the comment actually applies to. > What do you people think? (and how does one go about suggesting this to the > HTML design team?) I assume people in that team are reading this discussion, and I wonder if there is anything more than an individual could do than send one's proposals here. Naturally, one should be prepared to write a more elaborated suggestion, formal enough for eventual inclusion into a specification, just in case a proposal catches on. Yucca, http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/
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