- From: Dmitry Turin <html60@narod.ru>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:35:07 +0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
Good day, Thomas. Excuse me for a long break. TB> Just like <i> and <b> don't necessarily mean <em> and <strong> respectively. No. (1) Appeal to theory. Set (element of which is axis) is close, instead of open (as you imply un-consciously). There are no only not counted, but even finite quantity of axis: color, slope ('italic'), size, width ('font-weight'), font (upper/lowercase is like variety of 'font-family'), lining ('underlining/overlining/line-through'), background-color, 'letter-spacing' and 'word-spacing'. Can you invent one more axis? No!? How are we can mark EM and STRONG - let's think together. Color, background-color and font should be rejected, because are used by users arbitrarily. Lining should be rejected, because already used for anchor and <del>, and 'overlining' looks like 'underlining'. 'Letter-spacing' and 'word-spacing' are not well distinguishable. Thus what we have - all other possibilities are already used: slope for EM, size for H1-H6, width for STRONG. And _never_ other axises will appear!! Certainly I = EM and B = STRONG in __close set__, all elements of witch are __withdrawn__. (2) Appeal to practice (practice is _result_ of close set, all elements of which are withdrew). A UAs exists for man, and must reproduce logic of man, instead its own logic (i dumn search robots, which distinguish STRONG and B). Man can _not_ distinguish visually text, emphasized by tags B and STRONG, I and EM - and therefore tags must mean the same for UAs too! I.e. B=STRONG, I=EM. TB> if a web page uses <font size=7> to markup titles TB> (instead of <h1>) then you cannot infer that it's a title. You are wrong - read #1 of previous cue. Big size (of font) and H1-H6 are the same, also as slope is EM, and big width is STRONG. Dmitry Turin http://html6.by.ru http://sql4.by.ru http://computer2.by.ru
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