- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:16:08 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, public-html@w3.org, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
"Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > Couldn't this line of reasoning be applied to all elements, resulting > in no elements being defined as having "strong semantics"? It could, but I think it shouldn't. We have a chance of making validators whine about the abuse of new elements and old elements that aren't already commonly abused. I think it's not realistic to stop the use of <a> as a non-link click target. That's why I think <a> usage as non-link click targets, such as button, should be grandfathered into the conformance criteria, but I don't think we should throw out all of "strong semantics" for consistency. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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