Re: How about a <notice>element?

James Card wrote:
> 
> 
> There seems to be two or three major branches of HTML-based
> "documents". Initially the web consisted primarily of
> marked-up documents: academic papers, reports of various
> kinds, all essentially text-based...
> 
> The second major branch comprises "documents" that are
> primarily presentational in nature. This ranges from 
> graphics-laden pages displaying artwork...
> 
> The third branch I'll describe as the web application
> "documents"...
> 
> The <warning> and <notice> elements you propose I would
> associate with the third group (web application).

I would associate it with all three. In my view, formal
software documentation and programming references would
be associated with the first group--and such documentation
very often has "tips" and "warnings". Personal art
galleries often have update -notices-, so there's a use
within the second category. And then there's the tips,
warnings, errors, and other notices that come with form-
based web applications.

~fantasai

Received on Thursday, 22 August 2002 08:16:52 UTC