- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 11:55:24 +0200
- To: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
* Shane McCarron wrote: >While it is incompatible, it is not *arbitrarily* incompatible, if you >see what I mean. For example, we could have easily gotten rid of the >"a" and "img" elements, but we have not because people like and use >them. Sorry but the HTML Working Group obviously resolved to get rid of it and reconsidered recently, the latest public draft is the first one that in- cludes an 'img' element. This 'img' is not compatible with the old 'img' element and not actually included in the document type definition. Based on section 4 we see the following elements survived so far: a dd h5 object ruby td abbr dfn h6 ol samp textarea address div head p select tfoot blockquote dl html param span th body dt input pre strong thead caption em kbd rb style title cite h1 label rbc sub tr code h2 li rp sup ul col h3 link rt table var colgroup h4 meta rtc tbody the following elements got dropped: acronym big font img nextid s applet br form ins noframes script area button frame isindex noscript small b center frameset legend optgroup strike base del hr listing option tt basefont dir i map plaintext u bdo fieldset iframe menu q xmp and we have a few new elements: action extension item output secret submission alert filename itemset quote section submit bind group l range select1 summary blockcode h listener rebuild send switch case handler load recalculate separator toggle choices help mediatype refresh setfocus trigger copy hint message repeat setindex upload delete insert model reset setvalue value dispatch instance nl revalidate standby Not that survivors like <input> and <textarea> have much to do with the old elements with the same local name, and we did not even look at the attributes or the various design changes yet. I fail to see the pattern, but if there is one, it is clear that it has nothing to do with common use of the elements. Such compatibility is of course very important, we know after all that "much of XHTML 2 works already in existing browsers". I did not have a chance to visit this alternate reality yet though. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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