Re: [whatwg] Requests for new elements for comments

2012-01-27 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:43:07 -, Matthew Wilcox wrote: Obviously this is not right - perhaps I'm not understanding your use case? Why would you want to specify an author as an attribute on the element? Not necessarily as an attribute, I would prefer an element. What is wrong with: C

Re: [whatwg] Requests for new elements for comments

2012-01-26 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Obviously this is not right - perhaps I'm not understanding your use case? Why would you want to specify an author as an attribute on the element? What is wrong with: Content Written by: Person Any time you do this the information will have been pulled through a CMS, so it's trivial to have a

Re: [whatwg] Requests for new elements for comments

2012-01-26 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
Þann fim 26.jan 2012 14:48, skrifaði Matthew Wilcox: What's wrong with using a class on the to identify the author stylistically? It's already identified semantically by having their name in the itself, right (presumably in a too)? As in The situation only gets worse when you consider the di

Re: [whatwg] Requests for new elements for comments

2012-01-26 Thread Matthew Wilcox
What's wrong with using a class on the to identify the author stylistically? It's already identified semantically by having their name in the itself, right (presumably in a too)? On 26 January 2012 13:57, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:26:31 -, Ian Hickson wrote: > >>

Re: [whatwg] Requests for new elements for comments

2012-01-26 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:26:31 -, Ian Hickson wrote: Actually, they are remarkably similar. I think it's anachronistic to consider that the utterances of the site owner are in some way distinct from the utterances of the site readers. While I do agree with you (for a change), identifying aut

[whatwg] Requests for new elements for comments

2012-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Shaun Moss wrote: > > I've joined this list to put forward the argument that there should be > elements for and included in the HTML5 spec. We already have an element for comments and other self-contained document modules, namely, . The spec in fact specifically calls out