- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:09:50 +0200
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On Friday, March 30, 2007, 8:07:28 AM, David wrote: >> Right. HTML 4.0 spec is very poorly worded in this respect; despite >> having a range of elements (frame, object, applet, iframe ...) it >> only talks about one of them for target. DW> I think that is because it is trying to document a feature that it DW> wants to deprecate from the first W3C specification in which it DW> appears. Both frame and iframe are only possible if you use the DW> transitional version of the DTDs. That assumes that 'target' is solely for use with 'frame'. Which turns out not to be the case. DW> As such, they probably did not spend a lot of time getting it right, DW> as they probably hoped they would not be used after about three years. DW> (One argument I've heard as to why the features aren't described as DW> deprecated is that you can only deprecate things that existed in DW> previous versions.) No, you can document and deprecate in the one step. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Interaction Domain Leader Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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