- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:11:22 +0100
- To: XHTML-Liste <www-html@w3.org>
Along the same lines, what about sub and sup? To me, they seem dangerously close to presentational markup, unless someone can enlighten me as to what the semantic meaning of these two elements is... The examples given at http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-text.html#sec_9.12. aren't making it any clearer: H<sub>2</sub>O E = mc<sup>2</sup> Surely this should be marked up more rightly with something like MathML? <span xml:lang="fr">M<sup>lle</sup> Dupont</span> As the line just above the example states: "Many scripts (e.g., French) require superscripts or subscripts for proper rendering." So, "rendering" to me again suggests visual, unless you're suggesting that if "lle" isn't set as sup (when other forms of styling are disabled/unavailable), Mlle loses its meaning (which I'd contest). P -- Patrick H. Lauke __________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com __________________________________________________________ Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ __________________________________________________________
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