[whatwg] XSLT: HTML 5 --> HTML

Charles McCathieNevile chaals at opera.com
Thu Feb 8 19:31:35 PST 2007


On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:55:51 +0530, David Latapie <david at empyree.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:07:49 +0100, Jorgen Horstink wrote:
>>> - LH (caption for list! A must-have)
>> Why not using the title attribute?
>
> Do you mean <ul title="foo"> <ol title="foo"> ?

attribute values suck as a way of encoding text that should be presented. They 
don't do i18n well, it is impossible to highlight/emphasise/denote the 
importance of some part of the text, etc etc.

cheers

Chaals

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