- From: <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>
- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 17:38:55 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
Hi, On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 05:55:48PM +0200, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > > A typical contract (including many software licenses) will contain > > several paragraphs of upper-case, because the law says that > > something needs to be emphasized. > > I don't think it's the law but lawyers that say it needs to be > "emphasized". That's irrelevant. The point is that the paragraph is to be emphasized, *semantically*. > > Emphasizing with an <em> is better than just upper-casing, for the > > same reasons that <strong> is better than <b>. > > I think this is an _opposite_ example. Using just CSS to create > uppercasing is better, since the real intent is not emphasis but > filling some (imaginary) formal requirement. Everyone knows such text > don't get emphasis and aren't normally read at all. That's your personal feeling about this, but not a fact. Anyways, there is no doubt that whole paragraphs sometimes are to be emphasized; if you do not like this example, find another one. -Olaf-
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