- From: Ambrose Li <acli@acli.interlog.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 15:09:28 -0500 (EST)
- To: Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil.kjernsmo@astro.uio.no>
- Cc: Frank Boumphrey <bckman@ix.netcom.com>, www-html <www-html@w3.org>
On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 08:55:07PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
>
> But, what you are claiming is that
> "Note a) something important, b) something even more important,
> c) something veeeery important!"
> is not a paragraph?
This has also bugged me for a long time. The same thing goes
for <blockquote>, which IMHO could be inside a paragraph, like
<p>
Somerset Maugham wrote that
<blockquote>
A good style should show no sign of effort;
what is written should seem a happy accident
</blockquote>
and I think this applies to things other than literature.
</p>
should be allowed. But the current semantics of <blockquote>
implicitly closes the <p> element; this doesn't make any sense.
I think XHTML/XML are misguided efforts to bring vendors to
comply with standards; we should instead direct our efforts to
educate the vendors and authors about proper SGML and make HTML
sensible.
--
Ambrose Li <ai337@freenet.toronto.on.ca>
http://www.interlog.com/~acli/
"A good style should show no sign of effort;
what is written should seem a happy accident." -- Somerset Maugham.
Received on Monday, 29 November 1999 03:37:33 UTC