RE: (too) special markup (was: Re: XHTML 2.0 considered harmful) from Jelks Cabaniss on 2003-01-14 (www-html@w3.org from January 2003)

From: Jelks Cabaniss <jelks@jelks.nu>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:33:00 -0500
To: <www-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <001101c2bbfb$5e57e840$6501a8c0@blackie>

Bertilo Wennergren wrote:

> in a general document language? If "cite" is somehow on the edge of 
> being to special, I can't really understand what "kbd" is doing in 
> XHTML2 (nor what it was doing in any earlier version of HTML).
> 
> It seems to me that "kbd", "var" et.al should be confined to a module 
> for marking up computer code, or even moved to a special XCODE markup 
> language, since they're not even close to being rich enough for any 
> practical use when marking up computer code.

Thank you!


/Jelks

Received on Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:33:11 UTC