[jsr-314-open] [jsf2.next] WITHDRAWN Proposal to support newsemantic HTML5 tags

[Jim Driscoll]

On 12/14/09 10:28 AM, Simon Lessard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Or we can simply make the renderer aware of the agent and its version .
>
> Those new tags exist to better describe a document and could very well have a meaning in various render kit for their semantic value even if not yet in HTML.
>
> Or we could have the default render kit display them as div/span with or withotu default style class, leaving the opportunity to a third party to develop an HTML 5 render kit and/or also provide a HTML 5 render kit out-of-the-box as well as the default one. Briefly, I don't think the withdrawal is justified.

I know we've kind of dropped this issue, but I feel like I need to ask 
this question, since one of us is missing something obvious, and I 
generally find that in such cases that person is me :-)


If we make the renderer aware of the user-agent, and it outputs 
different tags depending on that user-agent value, won't that actually 
make things harder for the user, since the whole purpose of the new 
markup is to help with css?  What am I missing here?

Jim