- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:29:57 +0100
- To: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On 10 Sep 2007, at 14:53, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) wrote: >>> Certainly we should continue to support <b> and <i> tags, but we >>> should encourage people to use <em> and <strong> instead. >> Merely renaming things and continuing to use them as before does >> not really solve anything technical. > > Henri, you completely miss the point : RI is proposing that users > create <em> and <strong> elements for /emphasised/ and for > /strongly emphasised/ stretches of text respectively. Where does he even state that? He proposes that you use |em| and | strong| instead of |i| and |b|, completely discarding the other (valid) use-cases of |i| and |b| (and if you used |em| and |strong| in those cases, those elements would become even more meaningless than they already are (as a large number of WYSIWYG editors use |em| and |strong| for italics and bold respectively, even when the user doesn't want such semantics)). - Geoffrey Sneddon
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