On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:42:58 +0100, ddailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis and Simon Pieters are having a discussion that I
understand (at last... at least, sort of, or at least ... I think I do)
. The discussion concerns the meaning of the word "address" and the tag
<address>. How much of the meaning of the word should reflect (for good
or for ill) in the <tag>.
Hmm. At least I was not particularly discussing the meaning of the word
"address".
An element name is just an opaque string -- its semantic meaning are given
by the spec prose -- but it's helpful for authors if the element name can
communicate what the element is for.
<address> has always represented "page author contact information". Not
all authors know this however and instead use it for general postal
addresses or general contact information not necessarily contact
information for the page (or section) author. This may be because the
element name doesn't give enough clue about what the element is for, or it
gives the wrong clues, or because of other things. I don't know.
What I was discussing was whether the semantic meaning of <address> (i.e.
the spec prose) should change from "page (or section) contact information"
to just "contact information". There has also been suggestions to instead
invent a new element with that semantic meaning.
--
Simon Pieters
