- From: Shaun Moss <shaun@astromultimedia.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 11:31:43 +1000
I know it's contentious, but as a teacher it's very simple to teach students of HTML5 that: <u> = underline <b> = bold <i> = italic <s> = strikethrough Of course, I also teach <strong> and <em>, but the simplest way to teach <b> and <i> is that it's merely an easy way to create bold or italic text when the meaning of <strong> or <em> doesn't apply. They represent a convenience that spares the author the work of using span tags and creating a CSS class with font-weight or font-style properties. <u> is the same, just an easy way to create underlined text. It doesn't really need semantics piled on top of it - that just makes it harder to teach and learn. But using Chinese names or misspelled text as /examples/ of when to use <u> is another matter. I grok the desire to have all tags defined semantically, but if the semantic definitions add unnecessary complexity, then it just seems like a kludge. Anyone can understand <b> = bold. Shaun On 2012-04-30 3:46 PM, Andr?s Sanhueza wrote: > The<u> element was made conforming due to widespread usage and for > some cases were other elements weren't suitable. However, I feel that > the current definition is not very clear, as it gives two somewhat > unrelated used for it: misspelled text and proper names on Chinese. I > believe that is fine if is one or the other, but by the current > definition seems that the purpose of retaining the element is merely > were to underline needs to be used to represent something regardless > what it is, which seems inconsistent with other similar tags that are > better defined to have more finite purposes that aren't based on the > fallback presentational look, even if relevant at the time of defining > those. By the definitions seems that proper names and book names are > suitable to be indicated by<b> and<cite> respectively; or some new > element altogether. I'm aware that the fallback look is an issue, yet > I believe it should be resolved in a more consistent way. -- Shaun Moss +61 405478912 facebook.com/mossy2100 twitter.com/mossy2100 skype: mossy2100 groups.drupal.org: mossy2100
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