- From: Arnoud <galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl>
- Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 12:32:44 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
In article <199607312345.AA004136748@inet.dp.beckman.com>, Matt Heffron <heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com> wrote: > >Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > >But a few months back, there was discussion here about *legal* documents, > >which apparently do require underlining. I'm not qualified to comment on > >that, though. :) > > But, of course, the *RIGHT WAY* will be to use style sheets and mark > the part of the document to be underlined with either DIV or SPAN > (DIV if its structural, SPAN if its not) with a > CLASS="legal-term-defining-class-to-be-underlined" :-) This would be a major pain for search engines and indexing robots, as they'd have to parse style sheets to obtain this information. It's similar to using <SPAN CLASS=phonenumber> and then specifying how it should be displayed in the style sheet, rather than having a standard <PHONE> element, which the browser can display/render/dial/stuff-in-a- phone-book any way it likes. Galactus -- To find out more about PGP, send mail with HELP PGP in the SUBJECT line to me. E-mail: galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl - Please PGP encrypt your mail if you can. Finger galactus@turtle.stack.urc.tue.nl for public key (key ID 0x416A1A35). Anonymity and privacy site: <http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~galactus/remailers/>
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