- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie>
- Date: 16 Nov 1997 23:52:19 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> Those two elements are limited in their usefulness. If many changes are > made to a document, INS and DEL become very messy. > > Rob <P>My favorite food is <DEL><STRIKE>pizza</STRIKE></DEL><INS><U>caviar</U></INS> because this assumes that a) even though they have an earlier-than-4.0 browser, it still supports U and STRIKE and that b) people who are already really excited about the now-I-have-stylesheets-I-don't-need-no-stinkin'-appearance-tags aren't going to want to put them in. Let's be clear about this: if you really need to do markup of addition and deletion you shouldn't even be considering HTML in its present form, and probably not HTML at all. DTDs like the TEI have got extensive editorial markup specifically for doing this kind of thing, and plugins/browsers like Panorama or MultiDoc Pro can handle it properly with stylesheets. Or write your own DTD in XML! ///Peter
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