Quoting "Eugene T.S. Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I'd like to recommend that the WHATWG bring back <CENTER> because it provides an excellent way of saying "this is a centered <DIV>". <DIV> is no more semantic that <I>, <B>, or <CENTER>, yet they have their uses.
I couldn't find any reference to a <div> element in HTML5 except in some non normative examples...
I believe that they are useful for visual user agents, in that we don't have to provide a class name for simple uses. Generally speaking, <CENTER> should be used sparingly, if at all, but it should be used. <CENTER> could be used for resume headings and various other types of text, like peotry.
What would its semantics be as opposed to <div>? Do you have a concrete proposal
as how <center> would work?
I'd like to recommend that the WHATWG bring back <MENU> & <DIR>,
<http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-menu> I have not seen <dir> and I'm unsure what it could be used for...
I'd like to recommend that the WHATWG standardize <NL>. I suggest this because <NL> is shorter than <NAV> and because <NL> is consistent with XHTML. As I typed the previous sentence, I noticed that <NL> is much easier to type with 1 hand, than <NAV>.
I could not find <NL> (or <nl>) in any XHTML recommendation. I also never encountered it anywhere as actually being used, only in some examples taken from the XHTML 2.0 draft... -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
