- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 16:58:54 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Rob wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor wrote:
>
>
> > On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Rob wrote:
> > [..]
> > To support <FILENAME> new browsers will have to be made. To support CSS,
> > nw browers have to be made. It would be pointless to create a <FILENAME>
> > element because if browers supported this, then they would also support
> > <SPAN CLASS=Filename>, which is a better solution.
>
> Under that logic, we can use <SPAN CLASS=Strong> etc. The advantage
> of <FILENAME> is that it tells the UA that the element contains a
> filename. <SPAN CLASS=Filename> just tells the UA that the element is
> marked up differently, and says nothing about the logical content.
>
> It would be nice if browsers at least supported them as 'null'
> elements (with no change in appearence) so that once can use them in
> situations like <PERSON CLASS=Contributor> etc.
Good point. I guess there is little harm in adding more Logical mark-up.
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