- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:01:30 +0100
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Daniel Glazman writes: > Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > > I'd like to hear what new presentational elements are needed. > > I just wanted to say the existing minimal set ... is good to keep. > > On another hand, big and small are bad, <small> isn't entirely presentational, in that it _can_ be used to indicate 'small print' or something of lesser importance; sort-of an opposite of <em>. It some text should be small just because the designer has decreed that small text there would look nice, then that's presentational (and probably should be done in CSS). But there is meaning in text being smaller, it is less important than other text on the page, then it would be good for this to be conveyed in the mark-up, not left to a presentation layer. (The same doesn't really apply to <big>, because there are already things like <em> for emphasizing text, and the phrase "big print" doesn't really exist; if it means anything it would probably refer headlines or similar, which would be better in <h1> or something.) > because handling nested big or small elements is painful in an editor. I am in no way arguing with that. Smylers
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