Hi Tantek,

On Jan 4, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote:
Are you suggesting we put in a stub page on the wiki for everything we
re-use from HTML 4.01?

(not a rhetorical question)

I do think there is value in having *something* on our wiki for "underused" elements from HTML that are much more important in the microformats world than in traditional web publishing. In particular, I think it would *extremely* helpful to have something on:

* the various predefined rel tags in HTML 4
* profiles
* address
etc.

Maybe call it an "HTML refresher course", for those of us who never actually read the spec. :-)

I'm sure I'm not the only one surprised to learn that 'rel-bookmark' was actually part of HTML, and I personally think "the principle of least surprise" is often more important than a strict interpretation of "DRY." When I run into an interesting semantic XHTML design pattern, my first instinct would be "look it up on the microformats wiki" rather than -first- check to see if its some obscure (or even not-so-obscure) part of HTML I'd never heard of...

-- Ernie P.

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