- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 11:08:09 -0700
- To: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Cc: foliot@wats.ca, hsivonen@iki.fi, redux@splintered.co.uk, bzbarsky@MIT.EDU, www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
On May 3, 2007, at 11:00 AM, T.V Raman wrote: > > Next, you'll see me eating soup at a TAG meeting and believe I > like TagSoup:-) I'm happy to let you speak for yourself. Just to be clear, do you think the <b> and <i> tags should be retained for conforming documents or not? I've assumed yes based on your past remarks. Regards, Maciej > > To clarify, what I said about the <b>, <i> <em> tag question was: > > A) At the end of the day, asserting that <em> is more semantic > than <i> or that <i> is more presentational than <em> changes > nothing. > > B) Worse, if you only have <em> and didn't have an <i>, then > people will just use <em> as a synonym for <i>, and the overall > markup that results actually loses, not gains semantics. > > C) If the only accessibility problem left on the Web was that of > people using <i> tags instead of <em> tags, I'd declare > victory and go home;-)!
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