- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:25:00 -0600
- To: Marja-Riitta Koivunen <marja@w3.org>, w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
At 09:54 AM 11/2/99 -0500, Marja-Riitta Koivunen wrote: >> 2. <P><I LANG=fr>La Révolution Tranquille</I> shook Quebec in the >> early 1960's. >> >> These examples are identical in meaning, but the second example uses >> the [15]I element to suggest italic text. > >How does the I element support the separation of presentation and other >content? I thought we wanted to get rid of the style related elements >embedded in the other content? > >Marja > The WCAG would prefer the SPAN solution above to the I solution. The point here is that Chris asked how we could put LANG information on words and phrases and SPAN is the answer. WDG is not so enthused with separation as WCAG is. But that is a separate (and a GL) issue. Al Al
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