Why using a:link ?
<a> </a> means that the word inside is a link
a { color:blue; text-decoration:underline; }
is the same as setting
a:link { color:blue; text-decoration:underline; }
Link is a redundant tag
I presume that in XHTML 2 it will desappear or better <a> </a> will become
<link> </link> beacause the big difference between link and visited,
active, hover, and focus is that link means that it is a button or a
clickable word, and visited, active, hover, focus explain how this button
wil act.
This analysis can be apply to other tags.
Why using <p> </p> as p is a kind of <span> with margin.
I don't understand why w3c in XHTML 2.0 replace the <br> by <line></line>
or something similar. Why not using <span> </span> instead.
I will have long to say about standard and the way we are using HTML CSS.
The philosophy behind the web and browser must change. I think it is a pity
to make pages as we do in printing. WEB must offer richer interactivity
because to my opinion reading pages and pages on the web is a no-sens. Web
must bring more that what alredy exist. Sometimes looking at the web it
looks like an advance PDF page instead of looking as what was cederom. We
have to use more video sound, animation of course using standard but
infortunatly the browser are to slow to adapt new standard and authoring
tool are not yet ready to offer what we expect. I hope the web will offer
in a near future more interactivity if not I will not trust in its
life-time.(Flash is not the solution) In a world of communication,
communicate only by typing and reading text without sound, video and
animation seems for me paradoxical.
Berry
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