edit_attribute

Posted 2003-01-16 @ 21:34:42

There's been quite a bit of discussion about XHTML 2.0 lately, but Hixie points out an interesting feature that I missed:

Any element can be marked with an edit attribute to indicate that it was inserted, deleted, changed or moved.

This makes much more sense than wrapping existing elements with INS or DEL tags, and because elements with edit="deleted" would have a default presentation of display:none, I think authors might actually use it. Of course, there's nothing to stop us from adding del{display:none} to our style sheets now.