[whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 Feedback

Christoph Päper christoph.paeper at tu-clausthal.de
Wed Apr 13 08:36:30 PDT 2005


*Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch>*:
>
>    <abbr>M<sup>lle</sup></abbr>
>    <var>x<sub>2</sub></var>
>
> I'm not sure how to deal with the chemistry case. We don't really have an
> element for anything like chemical formulas.

Stretching its semantics really far, one could use 'code' for formulas¹
and 'abbr' for isotopes etc.

¹ The molecular sequencers ("replicators") from Star Trek are (hypothetic)
computers that need some kind of source code.

P.S.: Sorry, Ian, for sending this off-list at first.



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