- From: Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@tigerstaden.no>
- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:56:58 +0000
- To: "HTML List" <www-html@w3.org>
December 1st 2003, Christian Wolfgang Hujer made a proposition[1] to add the <addr> and <blockaddr> elements to XHTML 2.0 to replace the existing <address> element. I just wonder what the status on this proposal is, and why the <address> element in XHTML 2.0 still is a bueprint copy of HTML 4. Isn't it somewhat consensus that this element needs to be redefined or replaced? If so, where else than in XHTML 2.0 can that be done? I agree with almost every proposal made in the thread[1], but my current need is really just to be able to squeeze block leve elements into an address element, and to have that information not mean «contact information of this document's author» but «any address information related to this document». Most web authors don't know of the <address> element, but those who do -- even the ones reading the specification -- thinks the element is perfectly suitable for any address information, not only the document author's contact details. And that perception is imho very logical, given the element's name. Given all the good points made in the thread, why aren't any of them put to life in the specification? ____ [1] <url: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2003Dec/0003.html> -- Asbjørn Ulsberg -=|=- http://virtuelvis.com/quark/ «He's a loathsome offensive brute, yet I can't look away»
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