- From: magick <jasper.magick@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:45:14 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
> > magick wrote: > > >> 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... > > > > Why stop there, why not add these: > > > > <strong> = Makes things bold > > <em> = Makes things italic > > <ins> = Underlines stuff > > <del> = Adds strikethrough > > Because they are not presentational, as they denote meaning. Even if > something isn't visually rendered as bold, the meaning of strong is > still unambiguous and relates solely to the meaning...which would be > rather obvious if you understood the difference between presentational > and semantic, which you've just demonstrated you don't, I'm afraid. > > P > -- > Patrick H. Lauke You don't pick up on _scarcasm_ too well do you? I was being SARCASTIC, meaning "sup and sub are NOT presentational" Any adult with some knowledge of English and the way English is written could tell I was being sarcastic.
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