- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:52:02 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Bert Bos wrote: > > > > IE invented contentEditable for doing something similar to what you > > describe, btw. (contentEditable is being specified in the WHATWG > > specs: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#editing > > ...so that it can be more interoperably implemented in other UAs.) > > The property/attribute may not have much stylistic semantics, but it > doesn't have content semantics either. HTML isn't a template format, so > template semantics should be kept separate from it. Many people have conflicing opinions about what HTML is. :-) > And, as I said, you can have templates for anything, not just for HTML. > An attribute in HTML would solve only the HTML case. If multiple languages are a concern, then a global attribute (as Daniel suggested) would be one option. On the Web one mostly sees HTML at the moment. (SVG also has an attribute for this, FWIW, though SVG is a presentational language rather than a semantic language.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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