Notes on HTML

Via Joe Clark, an excellent critique of HTML 4.0 by Jukka Korpela.

The thing that Jukka's doing, and what few other people are doing, is offering useful ways to make a better mode of writing.

For instance, these notes on emphasis:

Since emphasis is actually a set of rather different things, for which different elements were proposed above, doesn't this apply to deemphasis, too? To some extent, yes. Probably the most usual kinds of deemphasis would be covered by the following new elements:

REM

a remark which does not belong to the main flow of thought, such as a note about the history of a phenomenon

DET

detailed information; typically to be used in textbook-like documents to indicate passages which may (or perhaps should) be skipped on first reading

Edit: Textile's dodgy blockquoting facilities make valid code impossible. Grrrr. Sorry about the hacky nature of the above.