- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 19:10:29 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > T.V Raman, one of the few people in this group who uses an aural > presentation full-time, has said that he likes the <b> and <i> elements. > I'll let his explanation speak for itself: > <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007JanMar/0668.html>. "it matters little at the end of the day if the emphasized text came through encoded as <em> or <i> once you have defined the same aural rule for both elements." that's a "duh!" kind of comment, sorry. If I tell my user agent to treat both X and Y the same, it doesn't make a difference to me whether you've used X or Y. No kidding! This isn't even circular logic, this is just circular full stop. "I dont believe visual web browsers have made this distinction anyway, in which case there is no real distinction." Which doesn't mean there isn't a distinction. Sighted users of visual web browsers can, if they so wish, set their own styles to override the non-distinct presentation. New user agents can implement a visual differentiation. Tools can be built that can extract further meaning from the differentiation. Saying that, because current visual implementations don't distinguish, it doesn't matter, is pretty much precluding any possible distinction in the future by just wrongly ratifying that there is no distinction. Also worth noting that Raman's opinion/preference is just that - a single user's opinion and preference. It is worth taking that into consideration. P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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