- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:38:37 +0200
- To: Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
* Edward O'Connor wrote: >For instance, suppose that for reasons of interoperability & not >breaking the web the <tt> element must be supported by browsers (default >rendering with a monospaced font, etc.). It would be entirely reasonable >to simultaneously require authors to not use this element, for whatever >reason -- it's purely presentational, etc. I am not sure what is entirely reasonable about that. Could you say what test you apply to determine whether a certain prohibition is "entirely reasonable"? Two common questions that help to decide this are "Is this required for interoperability" and "Does this cause harm". It seems that neither is the case for <tt>. You can make a good argument in favour of not using it in most cases, or that it should not have been introduced in the first place, just like you can make good arguments against use of improper spelling, dark gray text on black background, or not specifying the natural language of documents, but those are different matters. -- 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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