RE: [TECHS] Techniques Issues for Guideline 1.3 - plain text version

> For what it's worth, my proposal for 3.1 includes a L3 success criterion
> about providing a mechanism to identify main ideas and other important
> content (I know, "main" and "important" are fuzzy).

We don't have an <important> element in HTML.

> I bring it up here because it occurred to me that this might actually be 
> the sort of thing that <em> was designed for-- not as a substitute for 
> <i>, but as a way to mark substantial pieces of content that need to be 
> emphasized.

That won't work, as <em> is merely an inline element.
This proposal contradicts and would render illegal the everyday and 
considered usage of <em> by the people who really know what they're doing, 
standardistas.

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