- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:04:44 +0100
- To: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Tina Holmboe wrote: > No, I meant HTML 4.1. Starting with the 4.01 specification would > make perfect sense; take out deprecated elements, clean it up, > remove even more presentational markup ... > > Then release it. After that we can see. Please please please please please. Sadly it seems far too sensible a proposal for people to take it seriously. > No. It doesn't matter if it has the support of a dozen. We should > very carefully avoid, once more, putting the cart before the horse. Hear hear. > - The W3C /is/ the standardization organization, and Agreed. > a[n] HTML5 which, for instance, contain <i> with a revised > purpose over what authors has used it for in the last decade. Oh. Groan. However, it's reasonably clear the authors are writing about proposed usages with at least some of which they are unfamiliar, since the first example of its use is <p>The <i>felis silvestris catus</i> is cute.</p> (note the lower-case "f" of "Felis"). Philip Taylor
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