Re: [whatwg] Joe Clark's Criticisms of the WHATWG and HTML 5

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

Hello Christoph,

On 11/1/06, Christoph Päper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

*Henri Sivonen*, 2006-10-29:

>> http://blog.fawny.org/2006/10/28/tbl-html/
>
>>     * HTML has samp, var, and kbd. I use all of them and I am
>> pretty much the only one who does.
>
> FWIW, I think <samp> and <kbd> don't deserve to be in HTML and I am
> not convinced that the use cases for <var> could not be satisfied
> by <i>.

I consider

   <a href="" src="" alt="Foo"></samp></a>

That's a really good idea!
 

more semantic than the frequent

   <a href="" src="" foo.qvga" class="thumbnail"
alt="Foo"></a>.

Alas nobody is using it that way. (What kind of |rel| could one use
for this kind of links BTW?)

See ya

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