- From: Mallory Mollo <mallory@sweetpeople.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:20:51 +0200
- To: Doug Jones <doug_b_jones@mac.com>
- CC: HTML WG Public List <public-html@w3.org>
+1 This feature would be useful. Doug Jones a écrit : > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> *From: *Doug Jones <doug_b_jones@mac.com <mailto:doug_b_jones@mac.com>> >> *Date: *2007 April 09 19:11:09 EDT >> *To: *Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl >> <mailto:lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>> >> *Subject: **Re: Introduce <term> element* >> >> You might want to look at my HTML WG Glossary e-mail of 04/07/2007 >> EDT. It compares the 'real world' use of bold and italic with the >> WHAT WG definitions. I really don't see the need for <term>. >> >> I created this glossary before reading the <term> thread. >> >> Doug Jones >> doug_b_jones@mac.com <mailto:doug_b_jones@mac.com> >> >> On 2007 Apr 04, at 03:21, Laurens Holst wrote: >> >>> Looking at HTML5’s definitions of <i> and <b>, and in particular, >>> the examples, I notice the following: >>> >>>> The examples below show uses of the i element: >>>> >>>> <p>The <i>felis silvestris catus</i> is cute.</p> >>>> <p>The <i>block-level elements</i> are defined above.</p> >>>> <p>There is a certain <i lang="fr">je ne sais quoi</i> in the air.</p> >>> >>> and >>> >>>> The following example shows a use of the b element to highlight key >>>> words without marking them up as important: >>>> >>>> <p>The <b>frobonitor</b> and <b>barbinator</b> components are >>>> fried.</p> >>> >>> If you look at these examples, they are really all just foreign or >>> scientific or other types of terms that are accentuated (using >>> either bold or italics) as a means to help the user understand that. >>> >>> The second example of the <i> element could be covered by the <dfn> >>> element. <dfn> means ‘the defining instance of a term’. However, >>> what all these examples have in common is that basically, they are >>> all using a term without defining it, or want to highlight >>> additional instances of the term as well. In other words, <dfn> is >>> too limited to be applied to all terms, and thus currently <i> is >>> used instead. >>> >>> So, in order to fill this gap, I suggest a <term> element is >>> introduced, as an accompaniment for <dfn>. This will cover a lot of >>> cases where <i> is used and <em> is inappropriate. I think it is >>> generic enough to deserve its own element, as opposed to making <i> >>> and <b> catch-all elements and defining several overlapping meanings >>> for them. >>> >>> >>> ~Grauw >>> >>> -- >>> Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san nan da!! >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> Laurens Holst, student, university of Utrecht, the Netherlands. >>> Website: www.grauw.nl <http://www.grauw.nl>. Backbase employee; >>> www.backbase.com <http://www.backbase.com>. >>> >>> <lholst.vcf> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
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