Atomists
Tim Bray: So why isn't there a tag there saying this is a property?
This question bothers me at so many levels.
HTML is a wonderfully quirky grammar. Because it is extensible, we have wonders like blink tags. Initially, the right to extend the grammar was reserved by browser vendors, but eventually with the advent of CSS, a revolution was created whereby content creators could devise their own tags.
Unfortunately, they are all named div.
Grammars in which all elements are named the same bother me. Particularly ones in which the values are all presumed to be a string, and achieve XML well-formedness by virtue of obscuring structure via XML encoding.
While it was greatly maligned, RSS 0.90 really wasn't all that much different from RSS today. What it got right was that things like titles were represented as <title> instead of <PV name="title">.