- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 18:24:52 +0300
On May 7, 2006, at 16:09, Simon Pieters wrote: > I've been thinking about authoring tools and presentational markup. > Forget my earlier suggesetion to reuse <b> instead of <m>. :-) I suggest <u> is reused instead of <m>. > Therefore I think that <b> and <i> should represent bold and > italics, and authoring tools should use these elements when the UI > says bold and italics. +1! > Also, since HTML cannot have semantic elements for *all* purposes, > I think <b> and <i> should be conforming to use whenever there's no > other suitable element type for the purpose and bold or italics is > the typographical convension for the purpose. I'd go even further and say that using <i> and <b> is always conforming for marking up text that follows a typographical convention of italicizing or bolding. > [1] http://accessifyforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=5096 Not the first time a tool confuses UI and markup. :-/ -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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