- From: Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:37:50 +0300 (EEST)
- To: Mark Stanton <mark@gruden.com>
- cc: <www-html@w3.org>
On 2002-08-13, Mark Stanton uttered to www-html@w3.org: >Seriously though, can't anyone see the trap we are falling into? I don't >see why the <span class="..."> can't be used to cover pretty much all of >these scenarios. For the simple reason that there are no shared semantics, here. I mean, we could very well do without headings, paragraphs, whathaveyou, if we just used <span/> intensively enough. Those elements are present so that applications utilizing HTML share an understanding of what certain parts of the document mean -- HTML is supposed to be about semantic markup. Requesting elements which augment its expressive power seems sensible enough to me. It's a different thing whether those extensions should be part of XHTML core, of course. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:decoy@iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
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