- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:59:32 +0300
- To: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Apr 23, 2007, at 18:43, David Dorward wrote: > So "normal people" doesn't care about semantics or media independance. It seems to me that usually people don't care about semantics. People who use non-desktop screen UAs might care about media independence, but many people don't think about it, either. > Is the next version of HTML going to be a semantic markup language > (like its predecessor) for people who want to write media independent > documents or a presentational language with scripting for "normal > people"? HTML has never been a final-form geometry delivery format nor a format that only encodes profound semantics. It has always been somewhere between those extremes. The exact position has fluctuated with spec versions. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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