- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:59:20 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
> In reality, (X)HTML remains deeply conservative when it comes to > replacing or disambiguating context and typography with semantic markup A general diatribe against HTML, and for TEI, is not a good start. HTML is not designed for professional typesetters. It was originally designed to allow any reasonably intelligent person to create useful documents. In doing so, it has to compromise, and that compromise often includes relying on normal punctuation in the text, without specific markup. An attempt to introduce a purely semantic inline quote element was essentially ignored by users.
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