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At 07:19 PM 8/28/99 -0400, David Megginson wrote: >For those of you who haven't noticed, XHTML has gone to Proposed >Recommendation (PR) status at the W3C: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1 > >Unlike the last XHTML Working Draft, this PR has reverted to defining >*three* separate XHTML Namespace URIs (transitional, strict, and >frameset) with the threat of more HTML Namespaces in the future. Just wanted to place on the record the fact that I agree totally with David. Since an HTML <p> or <h2> or <br> has the same import for 99.99999% of applications that care about this tag vocabulary at all (yes, Ann, even if it says align='center'), it's just nuts to make them pretend that HTML is three different languages. Which implies that every futher tiny little enhancement to HTML, from now to the end of time, is going to get its own namespace. Which means that I, as a programmer, can *NEVER EVER EVER* write code that says if (elementType() == 'a' and elementNamespace() == 'HTML') doHTMLHyperlink() and hope to have it continue working in the face of future versions of HTML - which, we can be reasonably sure, will continue to have <A> elements with relatively comparable meaning to those of today. This is just wrong. -Tim xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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