- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:04:49 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, James Graham wrote: > Because that happens to be a convenient umbrella for specific > constructions in documents that need to be treated in a particular way > by UAs. Indeed I would be more than happy if Web Apps "clarified" the > situation with <sup> and <sub> so that purely presentational uses like > L<sup>A</sup>T<sub>E</sub>X were forbidden as these uses undermine the > ability to UAs to provide an appropriate rendering in the case where the > presence of "superscripts" or "subscripts" in a sequence of charcters is > important information that needs to be passed on to the user. I shall include that example as something not to do; good idea. Thanks, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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