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On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 12:51 -0500, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > Consider the default processing rule for HTML browsers: [unknown > attributes ignores, unknown element content displayed] There are plenty of ways in which a system could be designed to be extensible without such a flawed design as HTML. Forcing title and alt displayed content into attributes means you can't associate a language with them, can't include Japanese ruby or other markup. Conversely, when inline CSS and JavaScript were added there was no good way to stop older browsers displaying the content, so HTML comments are used. A better way might have been to distinguish elements syntactically if they could contain text to be displayed. Example - start non-displayed element named with an underscore. Attributes have a place, for machine-readable metadata. The distinction is useful. So we agree on that part! :-) Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ The barefoot typographer
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