Re: Sentence MarkUp

>What HTML tag should I use to mark "new" sentences? (That is, sentences
>added to the document recently.) I want to mark these up so I can apply
>special stylesheet attributes to them. Also, what tag should I use to mark
>out-of-date or unreliable information? I'd like this to be visible when
>the pages are viewed with a StyleSheet browser, but none of the HTML tags
>quite seem appropriate...

<INS> and <DEL> are pretty close. <INS> is for newly inserted information and
<DEL> is for recently obsoleted (e.g. deleted) information.

Just to throw in my two cents, I think Ping is being premature to call for the
removal of these and some other tags. I can see how ACRONYM would be useful,
since a browser might render it all in caps in a reduced height font, as
acronyms are oftened rendered in printed media. Some of the others might have
some usefulness too, and the worst that can happen is they will be ignored.
These tags might be useful for search engines too, if someone wanted to search
for all the acronyms or authors or what have you in a search space.

Let's not remove those phrase-markup tags just yet.

Michael Johnson
Relay Technology, Inc.

Received on Wednesday, 26 July 1995 11:11:35 UTC