- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 07:15:05 +0200 (EET)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Philip TAYLOR [PC87S-O/XP] wrote: > I understand both the questioner's and the responders points, > but what is less clear is why the validator proposes the use > of <P> tags at all; Apparently because the inserted code might be made a child of <body> in a Strict document. And many people think that a <p> element is somehow more structured than a <div> element. Which is true of course; it's just (somewhat debatably) wrong structure here - it means using <p> as a universal container of text, not as paragraph markup. > surely the recommendation to insert code > would be less likely to cause errors and/or confuision > if it restricted itself to recommending solely the <IMG ...> > tag with a caveat about "in a suitable context" ? But since the inclusion of the tag is worse than pointless anyway, isn't it suitable that the advice is given confusingly? -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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