- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 01:59:18 +1000
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- CC: www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Jukka K. Korpela wrote: >> On Sun, 6 May 2007, Henri Sivonen wrote: >>> Considering that research shows that "copyright" is one of the most >>> common class values, it is a reasonable hypothesis that it is used to >>> mark up copyright notices and that there is demand for markup for >>> copyright notices. >> >> No, it's just a guess, and a rather wrong guess. > > To show that it was a wrong guess, you would need evidence to show that > the number of sites using class="copyright" for a purpose other than a > copyright notice far outweighed those that do. Here's a study of 500 pages done by Philip Taylor (not "Philip & Le Khanh" or "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)", there is another one) http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/misc/copyright.html A quick review of the results shows that the majority of them are using class="copyright" for actual copyright notices. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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