- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:58:45 +0200
- To: mark.birbeck@x-port.net, www-html@w3.org
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:14:57 +0200, Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net> wrote: > Interesting...but why would you have the 'less-than' and > 'greater-than' symbols there? Well, because e-mails lack markup. Didn't I mention that? > That would mean that you are using a > start tag in ordinary prose, which doesn't seem right to me. Well, it's a convention. > Alternatives would be: > > The 'i' element indicates italics. That clashes with CSS property names. > The <em>i</em> element indicates italics. That might work in HTML e-mail, but it's wrong. > The <code>i</code> element indicates italics. That works fine in HTML e-mail or documents. Not in normal e-mails. Regarding attributes. For e-mail I try to use "The foo="" attribute is pretty cool" nowadays and <code>foo</code> in HTML. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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