- From: Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>
- Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 22:03:21 -0400
- To: www-html <www-html@w3.org>
On 6 Apr 2003 at 23:19, Toby wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 12:13:09PM -0400, Ernest Cline wrote:
> | The question therefore becomes
> | are the benefits of marking up paragraphs worth the extra overhead of
> | doing so.
>
> <div>
> Here is one paragraph.
> &ps;
> Here is another.
> &ps;
> <img
> src="urn:x-internal:test-image"
> alt="Am I inside a paragraph?"
> height="10" width="10"
> />
> </div>
Yes. The <div> you've definined has three paragraphs of which the third
consists of just the <img /> element. If the distinction between this
and two paragraphs and an image that is not a paragraph is somehow
semantically important, then one could use:
<div>
<div>
Here is one paragraph.
&ps;
Here is the other.
</div>
<img src="urn:x-internal:test-image"
alt="I am not a paragraph."
/>
</div>
or:
<div>
<div>
Here is one paragraph.
</div><div>
Here is the other.
</div>
<img src="urn:x-internal:test-image"
alt="I am not a paragraph."
/>
</div>
depending upon whether it is important that paragraphs be in individual
elements along with the <img>.
By the way, I've started my detailed survey, and so far, out of 23
webpages looked at so far, I have found one that used paragraphs in a
manner that required the use of markup for each paragraph. (Used to
achieve an effect where alternating paragraphs were styled
differently.) I'm not done as I expect to be looking at a little under
200 webpages before I'm through. (I've selected 64 key phrases at
random and I'm looking at approximately three web pages per phrase.
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