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Re: [Structure Module] Renaming the <html> element to more semantic name

From: Rimantas Liubertas <ic@rimantas.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:12:22 +0200
Message-ID: <43779E26.7040901@rimantas.com>
To: "www-html@w3.org" <www-html@w3.org>

Ai / Hiro wrote:
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> I suggest to rename the <html/> element to a more semantic name because
> what we actually markup is NOT "a hypertext markup language", but is "a
> document" or "a web page", using the vocabulary whose name is just
> (Extensible) HyperText Markup Language.

You can look at <html> as a shortcut for "html document".

Regards,

Rimantas
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http://rimantas.com/ 
Received on Sunday, 13 November 2005 20:12:36 GMT
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