- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:25:45 +0100
- To: "www-html@w3.org >> XHTML-Liste" <www-html@w3.org>
David Woolley wrote: >> Writers, even technical ones, would rarely hand-code their >> HTML...they'd get an authoring or conversion tool for that. They may >> not even be aware of elements like those existed, but I'd posit that >> they'd use them if made more easily available. > > My experience of the way that people use Microsoft Word suggests otherwise. Most people (non-technical, not professional writers) also don't bother with actual Heading 1 etc, but just select text and make it bigger (and then spend their time making a table of contents by hand). That doesn't tell us that we should also consider dropping H1-H6 from HTML and just relying on <font size="+3">, and retrospectively bestow it with structural/semantic meaning. P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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