On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:35:50 +0100, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
Isn't it better to make <address> more general so that its semantics
is more like how most authors use it so that it becomes a convenient
styling hook for authors?
[snip]
I don't think it's a good idea to invent a new element when the use-case
is so weak that most authors don't bother using it and no UA have
implemented anything useful with it. I'd rather drop <address>
altogether.
I don't follow. You seem to be asserting both that "most authors" misuse
<address> to mean any contact info /and/ that "most authors" have no use
for an element like <contactinfo> that is actually for "any contact
info".
Oh. I was misreading what you said in your previous reply. I thought you
were suggesting that <address> would be for general contact information
and <contactinfo> for what <address> is now. Sorry.
I do think authors have use for an element for "any contact info", but I
think using <address> for this and dropping the "page (or section) author
contact info" semantics is better than using two elements. If UAs or tools
get around to implement anything useful with the current semantics of
<address> then I'll reconsider.
--
Simon Pieters
