Re: [whatwg] Various HTML element feedback

2012-08-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: 2012-06-06 2:53, Ian Hickson wrote: I have rather been optimistic about future developments for markup elements that have been defined exactly enough to warrant meaningful semantics-based processing. For example, most of the uses

Re: [whatwg] Various HTML element feedback

2012-08-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: That might be realistic, especially there is no significant semantic clarification in sight in general. This raises the question why we could not just return to the original design

Re: [whatwg] Various HTML element feedback

2012-06-06 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: That might be realistic, especially there is no significant semantic clarification in sight in general. This raises the question why we could not just return to the original design with some physical markup like i, b, and u

[whatwg] Various HTML element feedback

2012-06-05 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: 2012-01-21 0:30, Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: I don’t think you have clarified whether var is suitable for physical quantities, but I guess you meant to imply it—even though there is not a single

Re: [whatwg] Various HTML element feedback

2012-06-05 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-06-06 2:53, Ian Hickson wrote: I have rather been optimistic about future developments for markup elements that have been defined exactly enough to warrant meaningful semantics-based processing. For example, most of the uses mentioned in current text imply that var element contents should