Re: Forums from Matthew Wilcox on 2012-01-09 (www-style@w3.org from January 2012)

From: Matthew Wilcox <elvendil@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 21:59:10 +0000
To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
Cc: "www-style@w3.org list" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-Id: <3CF31244-237C-4B35-BD96-D6E602FAD05E@gmail.com>

> I think this is backwards;  if someone sends styled text, such that the style conveys something useful (else why bother?) those reading in plain text lose something.  That's the only one of the four cases with semantic loss.
> 
> You are at liberty to style up my messages as much as you like… :-)

I think that's backwards. Because someone can optionally choose to strip mark-up (and therefore semantics) the entire group should be forced not to be able to add such semantics in the first place? Force everything to the lowest possible common denominator?

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