- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:50:21 +0200
On Mar 23, 2007, at 02:04, Christoph P?per wrote: >>> (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? Perhaps, but it is still the common case, because the bicameral scripts form the vast majority of Web content[1]. Just because something doesn't apply to *all* scripts doesn't make it irrelevant as far as optimizing for the common case goes. > PS: (Hyper)Text editors should never have had B, I and U buttons in > the first place, but now it is an established concept. I think fighting the B and I buttons is futile, but I defer to the authoring tool vendors on this list. [1] According to http://macchiato.com/slides/unicode_at_google.pdf, the Latin script is used many times more often than all other scripts taken together. Of the rest, Han is used slightly more than Cyrillic, but Cyrillic is used more than everything else that is left after Latin and Han. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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