- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 16:23:24 +0000 (UTC)
- To: WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> 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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