- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:00:07 +0100
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Maciej Stachowiak writes: > On Apr 28, 2007, at 1:11 AM, Mike Schinkel wrote: > > > Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:44:27 +0200, Mike Schinkel <w3c- > > > lists@mikeschinkel.com> wrote: > > > > > > > True, but the important point is that a UA can never be sure why > > > > the author used it so it can't be trusted as a semantic element. > > > > > > That argument goes for *any* element. > > > > Actually, it is not true for any element. Some elements, such as > > <em> are almost never used except when the user wants to emphasize. > > Lots of use of <em> on the web appears to be to italicize for reasons > other than emphasis, because authors have been taught that <em> is > "more semantic" than <i> . Or because the content's author used a wysiwyg editor and clicked on the 'i' button, which (misguidedly) inserts an <em> element. Smylers
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