> Jonathan D'mello

> To go off on a tangent Patrick, this is getting to be a rather common
> excuse from some developers. If they don't want to change code, they
> say it will break W3C standards.

The core tenet of "web standards" is to choose the most 
semantically/structurally appropriate way to mark content up using official W3C 
standards. But hey, feel free to just start making up your own markup 
(<stanza></stanza>, <line></line>, <word></word>) and style it with 
CSS...visually, it will probably look fine, but don't be surprised if you run 
into serious interoperability problems and issues like assistive technology not 
being able to understand what the heck you actually meant with your made-up 
markup...

P
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