- From: William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Date: 12 May 2003 13:23:28 -0400
- To: "W3C HTML list" <www-html@w3.org>
- Cc: www-html-editor@w3.org
"T. Daniel" <tdaniel@adetti.net> writes:
...
> > I disagree. In my documents <em><em> has a different meaning from
> <strong>.
...
> > In my style sheets, I generally use:
> > em { font-style: italic }
> > em em { font-style: normal }
>
> This is in keeping with standard typographical practices in print.
Yes! For example, \emph{} has order 2 effect in LaTeX.
> I'd prefer it if <strong> isn't trashed, but if it is, I'll learn to live
> without it.
_<em>_ and *<strong>* are usefully different inside xterms (or vt100s)
with user agents such as "lynx" or "w3m". In my opinion <em> should
be understood to have order 2 meaning at the level of content, while
<strong> should not be a legal child of <strong>. Because such
content exclusions are not possible in XML DTDs, I think that the
XHTML specification should characterize <strong> at the content level
as idempotent.
(Alas, I don't know any present UA that handles <em> as having order 2
without the intervention of CSS.)
-- Bill
Received on Monday, 12 May 2003 13:23:30 UTC