[uf-new] Re: [uf-discuss] hAudio issue: position

Martin McEvoy martin at weborganics.co.uk
Fri Jan 11 16:28:57 PST 2008


Sorry for cross posting my last two emails It wasn't Intended, will keep
this discussion to microformats new.

Thanks 

Martin McEvoy

On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 00:24 +0000, Martin McEvoy wrote:
> Hello Andy
> 
> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 20:27 +0000, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> > I think that providing an alternative to OL in that manner, not to 
> > mention encouraging people to use it by having it as an example in
> > the 
> > spec, is no better then "p class="heading"> 
> 
> I am not going to argue with you on that point I agree in principle, but
> unlucky for us the "real world" is much different to the world we are
> trying to create, you know as well as I that a lot of designers still
> use tables for layouts, most are not interested in validating their
> documents, or understand semantics beyond "web3.0"(yuck) or
> "twine"(lol), so hAudio has to fit in, in order to be adopted, this is
> why the compromise, allow authors to publish hAudio in tables (If they
> so wish) and so making hAudio easier to adopt.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Martin McEvoy



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