- From: Nicholas Shanks <contact@nickshanks.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:50:07 +0000
Having come in to this conversation half way, I'd like to give my opinions. In the following 'default style' means in the UAs style declarations for all documents of the language. There should be three emphasis elements: <em> Increases emphatic semantics by one level. *No* default rendering style for visual media, default rendering for other media not specified. <i> Equivalent semantics to <em>. Default rendering style for visual media is a language-dependant alternative glyph set of the same font family and weight (e.g. italic/??????, oblique, ????). Default rendering style for other media not specified (at least the same as <em>). <b> Equivalent semantics to <em>. Default rendering style for visual media is the same font family and glyph collection, but higher weight. Default rendering style for other media not specified (at least the same as <em>, perhaps louder for aural). The <strong> element is deprecated, replaced by nested levels of <em> or it's visual-specific variants. Thus where visual presentation is important, <i> and <b> can be used semantically (they are equivalent) and <em> ignored. Where visual presentation is not important, <em> can be used without concern for what <i> should sound like. The basic point is that <em> has no default rendering style, discouraging it's misuse for "i want italic text and people tell me <i> is bad these days, so i'll use <em>". - Nicholas. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2157 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20070110/20fc24ab/attachment.bin>
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