- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 23:42:32 +0300
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 22:40 Europe/Helsinki, Tantek Çelik wrote: > On 5/10/03 7:49 AM, "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: >> >>>> h1 to h6 Elements: >> as >> deprecated. What's the point in introducing something that is marked >> as >> "should not be used" right away? > > Comfort. Adoption. Understanding. Transition. The elements and attributes that were deprecated in HTML 4 exist in the XHTML 1 namespace because they were labeled "Transitional". Now again some old stuff that is labeled deprecated is being carried on to a new generation of (X)HTML and there will be more format variations to deal with. > And more importantly, even if it *did* introduce complexity in the > software, > such complexity is *strongly* preferable to complexity in what web > authors/developers have to deal with. Don't two different heading schemes constitute complexity for the authors? >> Consider displaying a meaningful >> outline of a document that mixes h and h1...h6 for example. > > There is nothing stopping authors from confusing themselves if they > really > want to. Given two heading schemes two HTML 2 documents can't be combined using naïve copy-paste without ending up in a potentially confusing situation which could be avoided if only h and section were allowed. > Perhaps you mean they are cruft because "Their definition is completely > historical, deriving from the AAP tag set."[1]? I mean cruft in the sense that they are redundant considering that there will be another preferred way (h and section). > Elementary psych. All new is not as attractive as somewhat familiar > and > somewhat new (wish I could find the reference - I went to college > before > textbooks were hyperlinked). Unless that something new is very very > simple > and fits (nearly) seamlessly into what you already know. There are a number of other familiar elements in XHTML 2. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://www.iki.fi/hsivonen/
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