- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 09:44:12 -0400
- To: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>, www-html@w3.org
At 06:26 PM 7/31/96 +1700, MegaZone wrote: >>with the common rendering of citations. By not providing U but rather >>suggest underline for EM, it would invite more people to use the logical EM >>element with the associated long term advantages. > >For legal documents you *MUST* have underlining, no ambiguity. They need >a *physical* markup, NOT a *logical* markup that may change on the whim of >a browser manufactuer. There are many file formats that exist that already allow physical formatting. Why invent another? Do we really expect lawyers to create their new contracts in HTML??? That's not very likely. They tend to use WordPerfect and there are tools that can put WordPerfect documents on the Web with minimal loss of presentational fidelity. A potentially interesting aside: descriptive, non-presentational markup was invented by a lawyer for a legal application. Paul Prescod
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