- From: Philip TAYLOR [PC336/H-XP] <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:46:35 +0000
- To: Jonas Jørgensen <jonasj@jonasj.dk>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Jonas Jørgensen wrote: > > Bertilo Wennergren wrote: > > 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. > > Indeed, they are not practical when marking up computer code. They are, > however, extremely useful when writing documents _about_ computer code. > So leave them in XHTML. Please. But : what is so special about computer code that tags specific to writing about /it/ deserve a place in the core tag site, whilst tags specific to writing about (say) linguistics do not ? Surely there is nothing special about computer code /within the aegis of XHTML/ that deserves it being given special attention. Philip Taylor, RHBNC
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