- From: beowulf <carisenda@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 12:39:24 +0100
- To: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On 5/14/07, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > Lachlan Hunt wrote: > [..] > > > var is one of the semantic uses for italics. Sure, we could probably > > drop it in favour of <i>, but then you and others would be complaining > > even more about us creating a presentational language. > > This I don't understand at all : what is "a semantic use for italics" ??? > Italics are simply a highly stylised version of a base font; what has > such a concept to do with a document markup language ? > Sorry, but didn't Lachlan write: "var is one of the semantic uses for italics"? You seem to have quoted him as saying: "a semantic use for italics" And if you ever have to 'mark up a document' you'd know that you need /something/ to say that this section should be in italics, or oblique, type. I realise that this isn't relevant to HTML (HTML in the sense you're discussing anyway), but you said "what has such a concept to do with a document markup language?" and that's a bit more general that just HTML :) -- Stephen Stewart
Received on Monday, 14 May 2007 18:03:15 UTC