- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:41:29 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
Quoting Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>: > For *practical* purposes, <i> will continue to mean italics when > applied to bicameral scripts on the visual media. And for *practical* reasons, tables are used for layout and <font> is used to change typeface...but that doesn't mean it's right. The argument puts the cart before the horse: <i> is used *because* there is no "names of ships / animal genus / etc" element with a default presentation of "italics". This does not validate its use for those situations, but rather shows the pressing need for elements that do clearly define those semantics and have that particular presentation built into all browsers' default stylesheets. P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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