- From: Ron Newman <rnewman@cybercom.net>
- Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 22:05:36 -0500
- To: Matthew James Marnell <marnellm@portia.portia.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On 5/27/96 at 7:14 PM , Matthew James Marnell wrote: >Sorry, I'm catching up here. > >:>A properly designed search or index tool should skip over <FONT> tags >:>just as it now skips over <B> or <EM> tags. > >Whoa. A properly designed search of index tool should not skip over ><EM> or <STRONG> but should skip over <B> or <I>, no? I thought >that was the whole point of <EM> and <STRONG>, to be content markup >regardless of outward presentation. If the current wisdom about >a properly designed search or index tool is to ignore <EM> and <STRONG> >then someone has missed the boat, me or whoever defines properly >designed search and index tools. It should skip over *all* of them! All of them are just "noise" when what you are indexing is words of text. No matter which of the following you encounter, you want to index the word "noninvasive": <b>non</b>invasive <em>non</em>invasive <strong>non</strong>invasive <i>non</i>invasive <big>non</big>invasive <font face="+1">non</font>invasive -- Ron Newman rnewman@cybercom.net Web: http://www.cybercom.net/~rnewman/home.html
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