Re: Cleaning House

On May 3, 2007, at 11:00 AM, T.V Raman wrote:

>
> Next, you'll see me eating soup at a TAG meeting and believe I
> like TagSoup:-)

I'm happy to let you speak for yourself. Just to be clear, do you  
think the <b> and <i> tags should be retained for conforming  
documents or not? I've assumed yes based on your past remarks.

Regards,
Maciej


>
> To clarify, what I said about the <b>, <i> <em> tag question was:
>
> A) At the end of the day, asserting that <em> is more semantic
>    than <i> or that <i> is more presentational than <em> changes
>    nothing.
>
> B) Worse, if you only have <em> and didn't have an <i>, then
>    people will just use <em> as a synonym for <i>, and the overall
>    markup that results actually loses, not gains semantics.
>
> C) If the only accessibility problem left on the Web was that of
>    people using <i> tags instead of <em> tags, I'd declare
>    victory and go home;-)!

Received on Thursday, 3 May 2007 18:08:19 UTC