On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 04:53:45PM -0700, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Speaking as a general non-technical user I would have
no compunctions
about using the <poem> tag wherever it works, including recipes and
other non-poetic circumstances.
The average user is intersted in what works, not just the satisfaction
of the arcane technical aesthetics of IT specialists.
For sufficiently small values of "works".
This is why Doing Things Right is so damned difficult.
<rant>
It's not aesthetic, it's not technical, and it's not arcane.
Recipes aren't poems.
</rant>
Cheers,
-- jra
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