Re: samp, kbd, var

• From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
• Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:11:57 +0100 (BST)
• To: www-html@w3.org
• Message-Id: <200608250711.k7P7BwY30057@djwhome.demon.co.uk>

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> On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 23:17 +0100, David Woolley wrote:
> > Those forms normally require user chosen free text input, which should
> > be represented by a <var> in the help file.
> 
> Surely the text input is a value, not a variable? In:

<kbd>Cook<var>cooking time</var>Start</kbd>

is part of a hypothetical microwave oven instruction manual using var
for the user's (almost) free text input.  var is basic for meta names.
(My actual oven only has knobs and dials, so I can't easily use it as
a good example.)

Received on Friday, 25 August 2006 07:13:28 UTC