Re: [whatwg] [html5] DI element

2005-03-10 Thread Christoph Päper
*Anne van Kesteren* [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The advantage of DI is that it allows grouping of definitions ACK and therefore takes away the importance of element order. So you want to put 'dt' after 'dd'? Seems strange to me. From a structural point of view it is very difficult for current DL element

Re: [whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 Feedback

2005-04-13 Thread Christoph Päper
*Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED]*: abbrMsuplle/sup/abbr varxsub2/sub/var I'm not sure how to deal with the chemistry case. We don't really have an element for anything like chemical formulas. Stretching its semantics really far, one could use 'code' for formulas¹ and 'abbr' for isotopes etc. ¹

Re: [whatwg] Re: About XHTML 2.0

2005-05-22 Thread Christoph Päper
Ian Hickson schrieb: I read a lot of fiction books and when I come across a * * * it reads to me like a paragraph, saying Meanwhile, in a different part of the universe:; it doesn't read as end section. new section:. section ... div class=pov Foo.../div !-- 'plot', 'note',

Re: [whatwg] Re: About XHTML 2.0

2005-06-07 Thread Christoph Päper
Sorry for the late reply, I had to read the whole thread in www-html first and was away for a few days. Ian Hickson: On Mon, 23 May 2005, Christoph Päper wrote: Ian Hickson: section div class=pov Foo.../div ... ...has no semantics apart from delineating one section. Remember

Re: [whatwg] Re: About XHTML 2.0

2005-06-08 Thread Christoph Päper
Matthew Raymond: Christoph Päper wrote: The div (as well as span) does indeed have semantic meaning in that it can group things. However, in the case of replacing hr, I don't see how this semantic information can actually be used to benefit the user. It's certainly useless on modern

Re: [whatwg] [WF2] Comments on sections 2.3 -- 2.5

2005-07-11 Thread Christoph Päper
Lachlan Hunt: I just did a google search and found some references [1] stating that ISO 8601:1988 and ISO 8601:2000 have been withdrawn and replaced with ISO 8601:2004. I'm not sure what the differences are (I haven't read through the whole article yet), though it looks like the basic date

[whatwg] Suggesting a 'transpose' Attribute for Tables

2005-07-18 Thread Christoph Päper
column-progressive despite 'tr' meaning table row; it includes the row-groups ('thead', 'tfoot' and 'tbody'). Actually I am not sure whether it is not too presentational and thus would better be done in CSS. Christoph Päper

Re: [whatwg] WA1: meta attribute requirements

2005-07-19 Thread Christoph Päper
Ian Hickson: The difficulty is in walking the fine line between useful and over-constrained. For example, the fact that ol/ol is invalid in HTML4 is a real problem. Well, olliThis list item will be replaced by a script./ol is not invalid. An empty list doesn't make any sense otherwise,

Re: [whatwg] attribute value normalization

2005-07-21 Thread Christoph Päper
Anne van Kesteren: It should basically not happen at all. It appears that no browser has implemented the 'may' from HTML4 That's the logic of tagsoup parsers, i.e. their inconsistency regarding authoring sloppiness. If it had been should not, they would probably do it. ;) Did you also try

Re: [whatwg] text/html conformance checkers and comments

2005-07-26 Thread Christoph Päper
Lachlan Hunt: ! As useless as the first one may be, Well, it's shorter than !--sic!--, i.e. usable for source code emphasis.