- From: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:59:30 -0400
- To: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- Cc: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>, HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
At 03:59 PM 5/18/2007 +0200, Dão Gottwald wrote: >Murray Maloney schrieb: >>At 02:28 PM 5/18/2007 +0200, Dão Gottwald wrote: >>>Murray Maloney schrieb: >>>>However, <i class="shipname">Titanic</i> could get you both a default style >>>>and an understandable semantic. >>> >>>But that default style wouldn't be applied due to the class name. >>How do you figure that? > >Like you did, I guess, when you wrote that '<span >class="shipname">Titanic</span> does not get you a /default/ style other >than that for <span>'. The point was that <i> has a default typeface, whereas <span> has no default style. So, <i class="shipname"> is going to yield an italic typeface in most GUI UAs and can be tracked to a useful semantic. Whereas, <span class="shipname"> could also yield a useful semantic, but not a useful default style. Providing a class name does not nullify the default style for an element. Regards, Murray
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