- From: Jordan Reiter <jreiter@mail.slc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 15:44:15 -0500
- To: neil@bigpic.com
- Cc: Ian Hickson <exxieh@bath.ac.uk>, www-html@w3.org
Neil St.Laurent felt an urge to reveal at 6:31 PM -0000 on 12/16/97: > TT is used again to distinguish text, and is used very often to > indicate something on the screen. This one is likely the highest in > priortiy for things to be removed. Especially since, unlike BIG and SMALL, which have no equivalents in HTML, TT has quite a number of logical elements which provide equivalent rendering, namely: CODE, SAMP, KBD, and PRE, all of which tend to render a monospaced font. While it is crucial to reinforce the idea of HTML as a non-visual medium, it is also important to recognize that it is still being used as such. I have found the BIG and SMALL tags immensely useful. I often use SMALL when adding "footnotes" to documents, ie: This is of course made clear in the argument by Miller. <SMALL><A HREF="#footnote1">[1]</A></SMALL> There has also been a big discussion concerning common usage of tags such as italic and bold in standard display of various formatting techniques, such as the tradition of italicizing taxonomical (sp?) names. ------------------------------------------------------- [ Jordan Reiter ] [ mailto:jreiter@mail.slc.edu ] [ "It's well known that dead people are all sick ] [ because they're too depressing." ] [ -- from http://www.icemcfd.com/cgi-bin/make_flame ] -------------------------------------------------------
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