- From: Ben Meadowcroft <cee.plus@virgin.net>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 00:10:09 +0100
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
J. King wrote: > It's been discussed that markup can easily be either too short or too > long. > > > Since <object> is likely to be used quite extensively in XHTML 2.0, it > would seem to be preferable to shorten it to something like <obj>, > which can still be rather easily decyphered--more easily than some > old HTML elements and attributes, even. Given the nature of <object> > and its new importance, cutting the extra three character would make > inserting images into XHTML 2.0 documents less of a chore than it > would otherwise have to be. > > Though since <object> is already well established, this would make > transition a little less obvious, but things are getting seriously > jumbled and rearranged anyway--would it not be a reasonable change? No, it's only three characters for goodness sake, why bother? -- BenM http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/
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