- From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:04:20 +0100
Henri Sivonen: > On Oct 30, 2006, at 22:33, Ian Hickson wrote: >> The CSS community has requested a <date> or <time> >> element because they want to restyle dates and times according to >> locale. Then the recent request to www-style for styling numbers would be justified as well. An element for times (or numbers) could have other uses, though. >> One of the reasons for keeping <var>, <cite>, <em>, etc, separate, >> instead >> of saying that authors should just use <i> for all of them, is >> that it >> makes styling them differently much easier. > > Assuming, of course, that you want to style them differently > instead of just italicizing all of them. >> (Why is <i class="var"> better than <var>?) > > It isn't. But <i> is better than <var> for editor UIs if all you > want to do is to italicize (the common case). Isn't this a very western point of view? PS: (Hyper)Text editors should never have had B, I and U buttons in the first place, but now it is an established concept.
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