- From: Alexandre Alapetite <alexandre@alapetite.net>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:14:02 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
- Cc: "'Jonathan Worent'" <jworent@yahoo.com>
Hi, 1) Concerning the levels of emphasis, the current XHTML 1.x allows imbrications of several <strong> and/or <em> tags. Although I am not aware of any browser taking advantage per default of this fact, you can perfectly create a CSS style to render <strong><strong>test</strong></strong> in a different way than <strong>test</strong>, and this is in my opinion easier than with various levels. Furthermore, this existing behaviour is imho stronger than the proposed level attribute, when considering longer sentences, where the default text is at level 0, a part of the sentence at level 1 and one word at level 2: <p>This is a sentence where I <strong>say something <strong>very</strong> important</strong>!</p> Then in CSS, you could have something such as: p { font-size:medium; voice-volume:soft; } strong { font-size:120% voice-volume:200%; } Tested with success with Opera 9 (using -xv-voice-volume:). 2) In my understanding, <strong> and <em> have two different semantic meanings. I usually use <strong> to highlight something more important than the rest of the text, and <em> to highlight something that is different (e.g. strange, not expected, funny, different context...) than the rest of the text. For me, making an analogy with the human voice, or CSS speech, <strong> would be the loudness (voice-volume), while <em> would be the style of the voice (e.g. voice-pitch). Cordially, Alexandre http://alexandre.alapetite.net ---- Original Message ---- From: Jonathan Worent <jworent@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:42:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20060620184253.1793.qmail@web32204.mail.mud.yahoo.com> To: www-html@w3.org I would like to suggest a change to the way empehsis is coded. Instead of either <strong> and <em> I suggest $lt;em level="#">. "#" Represents the level of emphesis either positivly or negatively. It would need to be agreed upon a limit to the levels for obvious reasons. I suggest 5. Currently there are only two levels of emphesis. If you want to give something more or less emphesis you have to use css. To get the proper effect you must account for that both visually and auraly. But what happens if the css is ignored? You're back to two levels of emphesis and you lose the desired effect. I suggest negitive levels to allow de-emphesis. Something that is currently lacking. As an example lest say you are writing out a transcript of a podcast (as per the WCAG) There is no way to mark-up if something is whispered, empesized, or yelled. Also, strong is just a stronger emphesis. Its redundant to have multiple tags.
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