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INS and DEL elements

Web design, Semantics, Coding - 28/6/2006 at 18:01 CET

Just a quick reminder to all the authors out there – the INS and DEL elements are there for a reason. Tantek’s podcast taught me this, hopefully this post can impact others. Specs say:

INS and DEL are used to markup sections of the document that have been inserted or deleted with respect to a different version of a document (e.g., in draft legislation where lawmakers need to view the changes).

So, if you edit an article an insert content, use the INS element. If you decide to delete content, use DEL and let the users know exactly what changes happened in the document.

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The Address Element

Web design, Semantics, Coding - 29/11/2005 at 15:09 CET

As Tantek Çelik said in his excellent WE05 presentation, the address element is perhaps the worst named HTML element. I definately agree there. A couple of months have passed since WE05, but it was only yesterday, when I had a chat with my friend Å ime, that I realized I didn’t properly understand how the address element should be used.

The address element isn’t for marking up literal addresses, said Tantek. It’s not for marking up all addresses on a site.

So, what’s it for, then? Marking up the contact information for a document. –Read the rest of this post–

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