  Re: Cleaning House  From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 04:00:22 -0500 Message-ID:
<463AF626.1010707@mit.edu>  Patrick H. Lauke wrote: >> Some
people are suggesting that it should fall on the pure-semantic
>> end of things (without really explaining how this is supposed
to work  >> given a very limited vocabulary and the desire to
express a wide  >> variety of complex concepts). > By expanding
the limited vocabulary.  Yes, but that quickly runs into
complexity limitations.  The fact is, the only  really decent
semantic markups I've seen were trying to target a very narrow
range of documents.  If HTML is trying to target a wide range
(which it seems it  is), it's not going to be able to represent
the shades of meaning that a more  narrowly targeted language
could.  It's just a tradeoff between it being easy to learn and
author and how precise  you can be in it...  Note that I'm not
against adding new semantic elements if they're useful, not at
all.  But there are so many possible