- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:07:30 +0200 (EET)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, David Woolley wrote: > The human usability of DFN was established long before the web was ever > invented. It was conventional, in typography, to use italics for the > defining use of word or phrase. DFN is a more precise way of encoding > the same semantics. How is the reader expected to know whether italics is used in printed matter to indicate a defining occurrence, or to emphasize, or to indicate a foreign word, or because it is a variable, or due to a special convention like italicizing symbols of quantities in physics, or just for esthetics? Similar considerations apply to web pages using markup like <dfn>, <i>, <cite>, etc. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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