[whatwg] Changes from HTML4 wiki page

[Kristof Zelechovski]

What should the browser do with a label containing markup, assuming the
operating systems allows plain text labels only?
Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org
[mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Ian Hickson
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 1:09 AM
To: Kristof Zelechovski
Cc: 'WHATWG'
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Changes from HTML4 wiki page

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
>
> Note that the "presentation reflects platform" rule is unacceptable 
> either since that essentially means that markup is not allowed in the 
> label, except for the control that is being labeled.

The "presentation reflects platform" rule is the whole point of media and 
device independent markup. It's the whole point of HTML.