- From: Simon Pieters <zcorpan@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 13:09:01 +0000
Hi, I've been thinking about authoring tools and presentational markup. Forget my earlier suggesetion to reuse <b> instead of <m>. :-) If <b> and <i> don't represent bold and italics, then authroing tools will most likely use <strong> and <em> to represent bold and italics instead. (This is already the case, even with XStandard[1].) Therefore I think that <b> and <i> should represent bold and italics, and authoring tools should use these elements when the UI says bold and italics. Also, since HTML cannot have semantic elements for *all* purposes, I think <b> and <i> should be conforming to use whenever there's no other suitable element type for the purpose and bold or italics is the typographical convension for the purpose. [1] http://accessifyforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=5096 Regards, Simon Pieters
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