- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:21:57 +1100
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:09:44 +0600, Anne van Kesteren > <fora at annevankesteren.nl> wrote: >> <em> has never been defined in a way that it could give entire paragraphs >> emphasis. I'm not really saying anything is wrong about it, just that >> has never been defined. Also, <em> was defined to be inline-level >> (nothing to do with presentation) in HTML4 which means that it could not >> contain block-level (again, apart from presentation) elements so parsers >> did funny things on error recovery. > > This confirms the point that the classification of elements into > block-level and inline-level is just a convention not backed by a > semantic requirement. The debate about the block vs. inline distinction is, unfortunately, not quite so simple. It's been discussed a few times on www-html in the past. I wrote a fairly good overview of the arguments in December 2003 [1] and then the issue came up again in July 2004 [2] [1] http://www.w3.org/mid/3FD88E7D.8060006 at iinet.net.au [2] http://www.w3.org/mid/81bb68c40407280758513a6b41 at mail.gmail.com -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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