- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 23:26:33 +0300 (EEST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
- cc: public-html@w3.org
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > So how about, right here right now, moving the contentious <b>, <i>, <sub>, > <sup> and <small> (did I miss any others?) under the "Presentational markup" > section I think I've seen this before... Those elements have been discussed many, many times on different forums. Calling all of them indiscriminately "presentational" is gross oversimplification. Surely the difference between 3<sup>2</sup> and 32 is not just in visual rendering; it's the difference between 9 and 32. Unfortunately, the discussions seldom go past the point of an incomplete statement of the problem. If such issues where presentation and meaning are intimately coupled cannot be analyzed and solved properly, it is best to allow common presentational markup as currently allowed in HTML, and perhaps add a little. Taking it away without adding fairly complex semantic markup for all the relevant cases would be a disservice. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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