- From: Jens Meiert <jens.meiert@erde3.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 10:23:27 +0200 (MEST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
The main issue I see refers to styling and formatting: If you have got no
such "separator" element, it is more difficult to create visual separations.
Consider the following markup:
<p />
<separator />
<p />
For visual distinction, it is sufficient to use e.g.
separator { border-top: 1px solid; }
But, if you use another kind of separation:
<div>
<p />
</div>
<div>
<p>
</div>
...a simple type selector would not suffice. Yeah, I know, CSS offers ways
to address this nonetheless (CSS 2: "div:first-child", in this case, CSS 3:
overriding "div" assignments via "div:nth-last-child(1)" or other funky
stuff), but this is a completely different approach.
It puts the cart before the horse, but I'm not that concerned with a
"separator" element (though I'd favor "sep", too). It's an empty element,
yes, it's not that semantically hot, no, but it offers certain flexibility
to, huh, separate.
Jens.
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Jens Meiert
Information Architect
http://meiert.com/
Received on Monday, 23 May 2005 08:23:33 UTC