- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:33:05 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> Do we even need *any* element for this? What's wrong with U+00B2? Think > of the poor screen-reader programmers. It's essentially presentational when used for many purpose. When digits are used as an exponent (or even as a crossreference) they represent parts of a number in a special context, not a string of a completely different type of character. E.g. in "octane has the chemical formula C<sub>8</sub>H<sub>18</sub>, 18 is the number eighteen, not the character string superscript 1 followed by superscript 8.
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