- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 11:27:37 +0300
- To: W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
On May 23, 2005, at 11:30, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > As mentioned before, and it might be wise to repeat it here, styling > should never be considered an argument for a semantic element. Have semantics become an end for the sake of semantics themselves? I thought the purpose of semantic markup was to serve media independence and useful automatic extraction and search. For serving the purpose of media independence, stylability and reasonable default presentation are rather crucial. If there are elements A and B whose theoretical semantics are different, but no piece of software ever wants care about the distinction and they are typically styled the same way, what's the point of distinguishing the semantics of A and B? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
Received on Tuesday, 24 May 2005 08:27:45 UTC