Re: [whatwg] Reverse ordered lists

2008-01-23 Thread David Walbert
is numbered one by default. _ David Walbert LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [whatwg] Reverse ordered lists

2008-01-23 Thread David Walbert
-numbered list items. Can anybody cite one or propose one? _ David Walbert LEARN NC UNC-Chapel Hill

Re: [whatwg] sarcasm

2007-04-24 Thread David Walbert
On Apr 24, 2007, at 9:19 PM, Jon Barnett wrote: That could also apply to other tones of voice where context doesn't make it obvious, such as irony, anger, suspicion, elation, and veiled threats. But if you mark it up, it won't be a veiled threat anymore. :-) _ David Walbert LEARN

Re: [whatwg] Semantic use of the font element

2007-04-12 Thread David Walbert
On Apr 12, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Nicholas Shanks wrote: My content goes something like this: span style=font-family:HelveticaThis is a sample of Helvetica/ spanbr span style=font-family:ArialThis is a sample of Arial/span If the sense of the text absolutely depends on its being displayed in

Re: [whatwg] Tendious use cases for dialog

2007-04-04 Thread David Walbert
be, though. (Less, I think, than for the ability to mark up an action in the middle of dialogue.) If the time doesn't have to be a separate block- level element, it could be marked up simply as dialog dtcaker (time21:57/time)/dt ddsweet/dd ... _ David Walbert LEARN NC, UNC

Re: [whatwg] Configure Apache to send the right MIME type for XHTML

2007-03-07 Thread David Walbert
and for print, gives XHTML tremendous practical value for web publishers. It isn't just theoretical or fashionable anymore. _ David Walbert LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [whatwg] href attribute

2007-03-02 Thread David Walbert
On Mar 2, 2007, at 12:20 PM, Nicholas Shanks wrote: it also helps remove redundancy when you have any two tags opening and closing at the same place, such as aabbrfoo/abbr/a (or abbrafoo/a/abbr — which is better anyway?) I would say aabbrfoo/abbr/a -- the abbreviation is the think that

Re: [whatwg] W3C compatibility

2007-02-12 Thread David Walbert
attribute and move on. (Of course wordpart is an unpleasant sort of class name, but...) _ David Walbert LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [whatwg] small tag (was De-emphasis)

2007-02-09 Thread David Walbert
. _ David Walbert LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [whatwg] De-emphasis

2007-02-09 Thread David Walbert
, then having an element for it is a purely philosophical exercise and wouldn't have practical value. _ David Walbert LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [whatwg] The m element

2007-02-08 Thread David Walbert
, and in the other European languages I can think of offhand) -- which would be confusing if one were trying to explain them aloud, especially given how close they are semantically. _ David Walbert LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [whatwg] The m element

2007-02-08 Thread David Walbert
On Feb 8, 2007, at 8:14 AM, David Latapie wrote: On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 07:59:44 -0500, David Walbert wrote: I would be less concerned that it's a single letter than that m and em are pronounced identically On the top of my head... (etc) Fine -- you have me here on details

Re: [whatwg] blockquote cite and q cite

2007-01-03 Thread David Walbert
On Jan 3, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Rimantas Liubertas wrote: So in HTML6.1 we are left with span and a. If you're going that far, why keep a? span href=url is clear enough. One element to rule them all, one element to...never mind. :-) David _ David Walbert LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill

Re: [whatwg] Element content models

2006-11-30 Thread David Walbert
this, but does anyone have a suggestion on how to make nested annotations/citations easily readable and usable, and solve the issue of how to number them? _ David Walbert LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [whatwg] many messages regarding image captions

2006-11-28 Thread David Walbert
image? Finally, the captions for images in the content management system I designed and use also include a link to a full database record of the image -- but that is, I guess, part of a credit rather than of a caption, and such usage isn't common. - David Walbert LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel

Re: [whatwg] many messages regarding image captions

2006-11-28 Thread David Walbert
best. I am not at all sure of that! :-) Right now I dump caption and credit into the same p class=credit, so I haven't had to think about it. __ David Walbert LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [whatwg] Subject: Re: many messages regarding image captions

2006-11-28 Thread David Walbert
to be implemented on the web. All that said: I could be wrong, and I don't see that a broad definition of figure would interfere with uses permitted in the current draft. So I'm done arguing now. :-) David Walbert LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] Editorial: 3.10.18. The |sup| and |sub| elements

2006-11-06 Thread David Walbert
mathematically. Is var really not meant to include constants represented algebraically? That would take semantic markup to a level that seems to me frankly silly. -- David Walbert LEARN NC [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [whatwg] Footnotes, endnotes, sidenotes

2006-10-31 Thread David Walbert
On Oct 31, 2006, at 9:30 AM, James Graham wrote:I think and distinction between footnotes, sidenotes and endnotes is basically presentational and whilst we should try to ensure that markup+CSS can create all three appearances we shouldn't treat them distinctly. Footnotes and endnotes are identical

Re: [whatwg] Table integrity and conformance

2006-10-26 Thread David Walbert
explain why the attributes are underused. Is the headers attribute any more widely used than axis? I admit I've never used either, but I don't typically generate complex data tables. David Walbert LEARN NC [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [whatwg] image captions

2006-06-28 Thread David Walbert
the content of the image, usually by telling the reader/viewer/listener why the image was included in the page. David Walbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [whatwg] image captions

2006-06-27 Thread David Walbert
On Jun 27, 2006, at 7:42 AM, dolphinling wrote:But there's the implicit association given by the fact that they're there, together, in the div, and nothing else is. Do you really need anything more than that? There is also the implicit association given by the fact that the caption immediately