- From: Sue Jordan <sjacct@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 16:15:58 -0500
- To: neil@bigpic.com
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Neil St.Laurent wrote: > ... deprecation suggestion > Deprecating I and B would mean that documents viwed without CSS may > miss the intended content of a document because the STYLE applied, > with SPAN or whatever, isn't shown. I'm in favour of keeping I and B > becuase very often they are part of content, not simply presentation. Not really. It's trivial to declare a style on EM and STRONG, so that the CSS suggestion is rendered by CSS enabled browsers, and legacy browsers retain their normal rendering of EM and STRONG. The very ability to accomplish this seems to me to be a further argument for deprecating I and B. I might agree that <EM> and <STRONG> may be part of the content of a particular document, but I <EM><STRONG> disagree </STRONG></EM> that <I> and <B> serve for any purpose but presentation. Sue Jordan
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