- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:34:17 +0000
- To: W3C HTML Mailing List <www-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > > I disagree. People already use <small>, <b>, and <i> in media-independent > ways, so it makes sense to "pave the cowpath" and spec it. > These are culture specific, at least for smaller text, and probably for italics. Simplified Chinese books use smaller print to indicate positive emphasis of material that the author wants to be read, even if in Western usage it means text that the author would rather not have included but the lawyers say must be sufficiently present that they can pretend that the reader will always read it. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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