The face of standardisation that wants to drag every form of media into
an indefinitely future-compatible world where everything is stripped
down to the lowest common denominator of
systematically-compartmentalised data... Has its place.
But it often takes the romantics to keep it in there. You can't erase
your ancestry!
We're driving into the same argument that the 'Art and accessibility'
thread died on - namely that only certain forms of information are
legitimate on the internet. This is an awful stance to take.
As far as possible, every element of information should be clearly
labeled and understood even if the rendering device has no use for it...
But if there is a problem with these ephemeral and hard-to-define
elements, standardistas should use their sense of order and clear markup
to help integrate these elements - attempting to remove them is futile,
if anything it'll just result in them being used or simulated badly.
Regards,
Barney
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