[whatwg] [html5] 2.8. Edits

[Anne van Kesteren]

Now I know backwards compatibility is important[1], but DEL and INS are 
insanely complex to use and do not cover all "edit" use cases. What 
XHTML2 does makes more sense to me (introducing a global attribute) and 
also covers the use cases you see most online.

Editing forum posts, weblog posts, etc. With forum posts there is mostly 
a note that the user edited his comment but you never see 
"though<ins>t</ins>". You see something like: "Last time edited: 
{date}". Now if you could say somehow that the contents of some element 
have been modified:

  <article edit="modified" datetime="{datetime}">
   ...

You could easily present that information to the user using CSS or some 
other mechanism. INS and DEL are IMHO not really appropriate for those 
kind of edits.


[1]<http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1113762425&count=1>


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  Anne van Kesteren
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