- From: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 00:46:44 +0200
- To: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- CC: tina@greytower.net, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Murray Maloney schrieb: > > At 10:51 PM 5/6/2007 +0200, Tina Holmboe wrote: >> > You keep saying that <em> is more meaningful, yet you have not been >> > able to explain what that additional meaning is. Pray tell, what more >> > does <em> tell me or anyone? >> >> It isn't a case of how much the EM-element tell you. It's a case of >> how LITTLE the I-element do. >> >> I have, repeatedly, stated that the I-element as defined does not >> convey any meaning, but the EM-element does. It is, in my opinion, the >> /wrong decision/ to redefine the world and not expect to take the >> consequences. > > What meaning do you think that the <em> conveys? > > If you answer with "emphasis", I ask you again to consider that there are > many forms of emphasis, and that bold and italic are forms of emphasis > as are yelling and whispering. In order to make that point you will have to say that italics can always be mapped to emphasis. --Dao
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