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Re: sub/sup (was Re: samp, kbd, var)

From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:02:13 +0100 (BST)
Message-Id: <200608230602.k7N62Df28814@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
To: www-html@w3.org 

> Ah well, yes, there are valuable uses, but only because there are no 
> appropriate elements in XHTML to express the variety of semantic 
> meanings traditionally denoted in visual print notation as a 

There are many different elements to reflect the various uses of
italics, but they are amongst the most misunderstood and under or
mis-used elemnts in HTML (cite, address, dfn, etc.)
Received on Wednesday, 23 August 2006 06:53:59 GMT

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