- From: Philippe-Andre Prindeville <philipp@res.enst.fr>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 94 14:46:57 +0100
- To: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www0.cern.ch>
On Dec 12, 13:51, Michael Johnson wrote: > Subject: Re: > I also think it would be a bad idea to do anything similar to the emphasis > tags. If anything, <B> and <I> and <TT> should be deprecated in favor of the > logical emphasis (phrase) tags such as <EM>, <STRONG> and <SAMP>. One should > not represent semantically different document elements with a common tag! I agree with this but I would go even further. Emphasis, Strong, Sample, etc. aren't specific enough. We don't know *why* the author chose to emphasis something: perhaps because it is the first usage of a term or phrase? In this case, we need a tag for that, not something fuzzy like <EM>... Still, it's a step up from <B>. -Philip
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