- From: Philip TAYLOR [PC336/H-XP] <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:09:20 +0000
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- CC: "www-html@w3.org" <www-html@w3.org>
David Woolley wrote: [snip] > Because of the level of confusion, and the difficulty of getting anyone > to comply with the even the most fundamental abstraction concepts in > HTML, I suspect collapsing them into one category is the only thing that > might work, for the <5% of people that will bother to mark them at all. Isn't that a bit defeatist ? If one were to follow this principle to its logical conclusion, one would ditch <em> on the basis that typographers think of it as a horizontal unit of length and replace it with <i> on the basis that italicisation is the effect which 95% of its users intend ... Not exactly /reductio ad absurdam/, but I think you can see where this "let's elide potentially misunderstood tags" could lead ... Philip Taylor, RHBNC
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