- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:59:32 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Giovanni Campagna <scampa.giovanni@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > > If HTML4 had been modularized, HTML5 would have used HTML4's table > module, text module (b-i-span-strong..), metainformation module > (html-head-body-meta) etc. We actually tried that (using XHTML Modularisation in Web Forms 2), but browser vendors indicated no interest whatsoever in using this, and in practice it was more of a hindrance than a help to the specification process. I agree with Benjamin's assessment in this e-mail: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2009Jan/0042.html -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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