- From: Mikko Rantalainen <mikko.rantalainen@peda.net>
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:52:42 +0200
David Latapie wrote: > On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:58:35 +0200, Mikko Rantalainen wrote: >> ignore and is usually orthogonal to the rest of the content. <small> >> is something you usually skip but you must be aware of the content >> (e.g. a copyright or license boilerplate) - the key here is that the >> content is often repeated but if you have read it *once*, then you >> may skip it later. > > So, if I understanf you correctly, <small> is short for "important > legalse-like SMALL-print" and not just "SMALL-text">, right? That's pretty much what the current WHATWG spec says: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-small The latest HTML specification of small element (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#h-15.2.1) only says "15.2.1 Font style elements: the TT, I, B, BIG, SMALL, STRIKE, S, and U elements" and "SMALL: Renders text in a 'small' font". So either <small> has no semantics at all (and should be dropped) or it has semantics defined by WHATWG (which seems to describe the current usage in the wild). -- Mikko
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