> If I would like to propose new HTML tags that I think are very important,
> how do I go about it?
Dan Connolly suggested (sorry, lost the original message-ID)
that one should list:
* a statement of the problem as you see it
* a proposed solution
* a demonstration that this solution is globally cost-effective
without being locally prohibitive (For example, if
you require every information provider to do something, it
had better be minimal.)
[address:
+ Changes to DTD
+ Impact on existing documents
+ Impact on existing browsers & tools
]
* a discussion of graceful deployment and interoperability issues.
To that I would add:
Review the html-wg and www-html mailing list archives first,
to see if anything similar has been proposed before:
<URL:http://www.acl.lanl.gov/HTML_WG/archives.html>
<URL:http://gummo.stanford.edu/html/hypermail/>
Obtain a thorough knowledge of SGML :-)
Post a message to <www-html@mail.w3.org> to start the
discussion; once you have all the details worked out,
submit a proposal to <html-wg@oclc.org>.
If you have written a browser, implement the
new feature(s) as a proof-of-concept.
--Joe English
joe@trystero.art.com