[whatwg] Joe Clark's Criticisms of the WHATWG and HTML 5
Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
Wed Nov 8 04:52:12 PST 2006
Le 7 nov. 2006 à 18:59, Niels Fröhling a écrit :
> * metaphorical semantics (the meaning of the things)
> * structural semantic (the order of the things)
> * purposal semantics (the purpose of the things)
>
> Let me denote some examples:
>
> * metaphorical:
> - <joke> marks something to be funny, sarcastic or zynic
> - <strong> emphasises a content strongly
> * structural (aka. define dependencies):
> - <p> marks text to belong together, to be connected sentences
> - <chapter> marks sections to belong together
> - <formular> marks an interactive region
> * purposal:
> - <control> marks a region to be inside an interface-element
> - <nav> marks a section to contain the/a navigation
> - <title> marks a region to be a chapters/documents title
It's vaguely similar to some classification I was trying to do not
long ago, although I could not come to something conclusive.
Where would you put <a>, <img>, and <i> in this?
Michel Fortin
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