[whatwg] sarcasm

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Wed Apr 25 09:18:31 PDT 2007


On Tuesday 24 April 2007 21:58, Elliotte Harold wrote:
> It occurs to me that one of the most frequently used nits of
> pseudo-markup is to indicate sarcasm. For example,
>
> <sarcasm>Yeah, George W. Bush has been such a great president.</sarcasm>
>
> Should we perhaps formalize this? Is there any benefit to be achieved by
> adding an explicit sarcasm element to HTML?

<sarcasm>Excelent!!</sarcasm>

This will be a great idea to formalize and publish around April next year.

`Allan



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