On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > As another analogy, in a recent message to Ian I referred to such > presentational elements as "safety valves". > > Whenever someone uses <div>, don't say "alas, that's a hole in HTML"; > say "hooray, that's someone who isn't misusing <blockquote>".
For the record, note that <div> is now in HTML5. If I recall correctly, the only element now missing is <font>, and that will be added in due course (when I get around to speccing what WYSIWYG editors are allowed to do). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
