- From: Johannes Koch <koch@w3development.de>
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 00:25:11 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
Laurens Holst wrote:
> Seriously though, I like having as much semantic tags as I need for
> marking up a document. Maybe for a common web document (e.g. a blog or a
> manual) a separator isn’t as useful because the construct isn’t usually
> used, but for other types of documents (e.g. online books) it is. Of
> course everything can be styled with spans and divs with classnames, but
> I prefer not to :).
>
> And to create container elements for this kind of things instead of
> making an element which represents what they really are (separators) -
> nah. It doesn’t contain, it separates.
Why is the separator there in a visual presentation (readable book)?
Because e.g. the perspective changes. I.e. one block of text as one
perspective, the following has another.
--
Johannes Koch
In te domine speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
(Te Deum, 4th cent.)
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