- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:59:10 +0300
- To: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>, www-html@w3.org
On Apr 23, 2007, at 15:04, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) wrote: > 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. The problem with the proposal is that it would tie up editorial and review talent while failing to address the forward-looking issues that HTML5 is addressing. >> 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"). For *practical* purposes, <i> will continue to mean italics when applied to bicameral scripts on the visual media. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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