- From: Daniel Schattenkirchner <schattenkirchner.daniel@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:20:12 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
Ben Boyle wrote: > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-b I recommend to use the multipage version of the draft: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-phrase.html#the-b > These are contradictory. I think the first example should be fixed. > (Maybe it should be kept as an example where m is preferred over b). I may be completely wrong, but here's my interpretation: I think the difference between <b> and <m> is, that <b> carries some sematic value, while <m> is a data element. In effect this means, that <b> marks up information that is important to the document(-structure), while <m> marks up data that is important to the user agent/user. The second example of the m-element makes this clear. <m> is used to mark up the keywords in a search result that were used to run the search. It's like the highlight feature in your search window/bar. In this example, the user agent could format <m> like it'd format it's own search results thus create a familiar/native feeling to the user. However, <m> is indeed poorly defined and I wouldn't care if it was removed like proposed. ds.
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