- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:24:17 +0100
- To: HTML Mailing List <www-html@w3.org>
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 08:16:17AM -0700, Jonathan Worent wrote: > Currently CSS is the only way to achieve more than two > levels of emphasis. No, it is the only way to do so in current browsers without user modifications. > I don't know of any browsers (assistive technologies included) that > interpret <em><em>Reilly emphasized</em></em> as more than > <em>really emphasized</em>. I don't know any that interpret <em level="2"> as such either. > Also, as this start to get more and more emphasized (ex: indicating > an escalating argument) having <em><em><em><em>I'm > angry</em></em></em></em> gets really redundant IMO. Perhaps that's a good thing. It avoids people just using level 1 and level 5 and ignoring all the ones in between. > This also does not provide a way to indicate > de-emphasis. So perhaps it would be worth adding an <unimportant> element or similar. > However, since this is a new spec, and it has been > stated that it is not intended to be backwards > compatible, I believe this is a golden opportunity for > real improvement. Yes, but I think explicitly mentioning nested ems would be a better improvement then some set number of levels. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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