- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:29:30 +0300
On Sep 20, 2008, at 01:41, Ozob the Great wrote: > I am concerned about the existence of HTML5's <var>. This was > brought to my attention during a technical debate on Wikipedia which > amounted to: Where is use of <var> appropriate? One can use <var> instead of <i> to style a variable or placeholder differently from non-placeholder text. The use cases for <var> probably aren't strong enough to warrant its addition to HTML at this stage if it hadn't been in HTML already--you might as well use <i>. However, given that <var> has already been in HTML for a long time, it probably isn't harmful enough to make it non- conforming. Actually, its main harm is the opportunity cost of the debates about when it's appropriate to use it. :-/ -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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