- From: Adrian Roselli <Roselli@algonquinstudios.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:13:17 +0000
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boris Zbarsky [mailto:bzbarsky@MIT.EDU]
>
> On 5/21/13 10:33 AM, Adrian Roselli wrote:
> > Neither <strong>, <em>, nor <small> have grades -- they are all or nothing.
> > Nesting *can* imply more (actually, can it?), but without additional styling
> > doesn't amount to any presentation differences.
>
> 1) The recommended UA stylesheet for HTML5 contains:
>
> b, strong { font-weight: bolder; }
>
> Which means that if you have decent fonts in multiple bold weights,
> something like this:
>
> <strong>I am <strong>stronger</strong></strong>
>
> will in fact have the "stronger" as bolder weight than "I am".
>
> 2) Nested emphasis, while not as well supported in HTML is commonly used
> in print; typically what you will have is something like:
>
> Some <em>very <em>emphasized</em> text</em>
>
> Where the "very" and "text" are italic and the "emphasized" is not.
>
> 3) The recommended UA stylesheet for HTML5 contains:
>
> small { font-size: smaller; }
>
> so again nested <small> will in fact give you the "this is even smaller"
> styling, up to a point.
Those are all about styling, which is (to me) strictly presentation. Does the nesting do anything for AT or for anything related to the document structure or semantics?
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