- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 23:10:34 -0500
- To: Henrik Edlund <henrik@edlund.org>
- CC: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>, site-comments@w3.org, rigo@w3.org, www-talk@w3.org
Henrik Edlund wrote: > > I have always wondered, and maybe you are the man to ask, why W3C puts > other stuff than contact information inside the address element on their > site. I think <address> is something of a misnomer; the HTML 4 spec doesn't say much about style. But take a look at the "Sign It!" page in the styleguide... http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/SignIt Based on that, I take the <address> tag to provide a signature for the page; signatures usually include dates, ala signed this 8th day of May, 2001, __Daniel W. Connolly__. > I have seen W3C for example put "Valid HTML 4!" inside the address > element. That seemed right to me on various occasions, but now I can't think of a good explanation as to why. But some things that do seem to fit are things like -- the title of the signer; i.e. the role which the signer is playing -- other forms of endorsement; e.g. if the Florp group approved the document today, I'd include "approved 7 May 2001 by the Florp group" in the <address>. > If I look at the use > of the address element it seems to be more of a way to make text italic > (in Netscape at least) than to mark up _contact_ information. Please don't look at it that way. Think of it as a way to say "on this date, I make myself accountable for this information; here's some contact information that you can use to hold me accountable." It's a lot like a .sig in email. > > With regards, > > Henrik > > On Mon, 7 May 2001, Dan Connolly wrote: > > > Also, http://www.w3.org/P3P/ isn't signed. > > Please add <address>...</address> markup > > per http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/SignIt . > > While you're at it, I suggest a link to site-comments ala.. > > > > Dan Connolly > > Created April 1997; policy/maintenance info > > feedback to connolly+xml and site-comments (public archive) > > $Revision: 1.188 $ $Date: 2001/05/01 01:18:25 $ by $Author: connolly $ > > -- http://www.w3.org/XML/ -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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