- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 16:39:41 +0200
- To: Svgdeveloper@aol.com
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
Also sprach Svgdeveloper@aol.com:
> Is there, for example, a worthwhile semantic difference between the
> following?
<h1>"Formatting Objects Considered Harmful"</h1>
<p>""Formatting Objects Considered Harmful"</p>
<svg:text>"Formatting Objects Considered Harmful"</svg:text>
Yes. For example, using Opera, you can move from one heading to the
other with the W and S keys. Opera understands that H1 represents a
heading, but not the p or svg:text -- the information that the string
is a heading has been lost.
> Are you seriously suggesting that SVG too is "harmful" and should be
> abandoned because it lacks the historical domain-specific idiosyncracies of
> HTML?
SVG is harmful when used to replace semantically richer formats (like HTML).
SVG is helpful when used to replace semantically poorer formats (like GIF).
Cheers,
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie cto °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Friday, 16 August 2002 10:51:15 UTC