On Nov 5, 2008, at 10:46, Pentasis wrote:
<var> is the best example I think. Why <var> but not <function> <operator> <operand> etc. etc. etc.? And if code gets this attention why not language? (<verb>, <noun> etc. etc.) If we do it like that it would never work.
<var>, <cite> and <dfn> (and, one might argue, <em>) are legacy elements flowing out of a desire to replace <i> with something "semantic".
Since the elements are part of the HTML legacy, there isn't a great rationale that would justify their inclusion today if they had never been in HTML and were proposed as new elements now.
-- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
