Re: [whatwg] Requests for new elements for comments

2012-01-27 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:43:07 -, Matthew Wilcox elven...@gmail.com wrote: Obviously this is not right - perhaps I'm not understanding your use case? Why would you want to specify an author as an attribute on the element? Not necessarily as an attribute, I would prefer an element.

Re: [whatwg] Requests for new elements for comments

2012-01-26 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:26:31 -, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: Actually, they are remarkably similar. I think it's anachronistic to consider that the utterances of the site owner are in some way distinct from the utterances of the site readers. While I do agree with you (for a change),

Re: [whatwg] Requests for new elements for comments

2012-01-26 Thread Matthew Wilcox
What's wrong with using a class on the article to identify the author stylistically? It's already identified semantically by having their name in the article itself, right (presumably in a footer too)? On 26 January 2012 13:57, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2012

Re: [whatwg] Requests for new elements for comments

2012-01-26 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
Þann fim 26.jan 2012 14:48, skrifaði Matthew Wilcox: What's wrong with using a class on the article to identify the author stylistically? It's already identified semantically by having their name in the article itself, right (presumably in a footer too)? As in article class=asdf lolcats

Re: [whatwg] Requests for new elements for comments

2012-01-26 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Obviously this is not right - perhaps I'm not understanding your use case? Why would you want to specify an author as an attribute on the element? What is wrong with: article class=by-post-author pContent/p footer p class=authorWritten by: Person/p /footer /article Any time you do this the

[whatwg] Requests for new elements for comments

2012-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Shaun Moss wrote: I've joined this list to put forward the argument that there should be elements for comment and ad included in the HTML5 spec. We already have an element for comments and other self-contained document modules, namely, article. The spec in fact