On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> 2014-12-05, 11:41, Jens Oliver Meiert wrote: > > Has there ever been a discussion about a dedicated element for ads, like >> <ad>? >> > > Probably. What specific purposes would it serve? > Yes. This question has been addressed in the rationale section of the wiki, here <https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Rationale#Why_isn.E2.80.99t_there_a_dedicated_element_for_advertisements.3F_.28e.g..2C_.3Cad.3E.2C_or_.3Cadvert.3E.2C_or_.3Cbanner.3E.2C_or_whatever.29> . > > The most obvious way of utilizing such markup, assuming it were commonly > used, would be to have > > ad { display: none } > > in a user style sheet. I think this suffices to show why such markup would > not be used. > Yup, that's about the size of it, and why the proposal was rejected. Cory > > Yucca > > >
