- From: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 17:55:55 +0200
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:33:14PM +1000, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> >Or have someone officially redefined HTML as a presentational language
> >while I was looking the other way?
>
> No, but we have to strike an appropriate balance between a strict
> separation of presentation and semantics, and having a set of useful and
> practical elements.
So HTML 5 should, as opposed to HTML 4, become a *mix* of a presentational
and structural language?
Frankly, I wish you'd try to see the other side of this debate, Lachlan. I
have, since 1995, taught people that HTML is a *structural* language and
we are gaining ground. Slowly, perhaps, but we are getting there, and as
others have pointed out: it is /improving/* accessibility.
HTML 5 is going to turn that upside down - and, yes, I do admit that I
am slightly bitter that twelve years of trying to impart something of
structure, semantics, and accessibility is going to be tossed down the
drain for the sake of, frankly, misguided 'pragmatism'.
*
Sorry. You'll all just have to learn to live with all the presentational
markup in my e-mails. Alternatively you could have the courtesy of not
putting IRC logs online when spending time dissing opponents.
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- Tina Holmboe Developer's Archive Greytower Technologies
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