- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 23:10:01 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Christoph Päper wrote: > > Patrick H. Lauke: >> So should there be a need for a document containing <small>, for >> instance, to pass conformance checks? > > The least thing the specification should do is to list previously valid > element and attribute names and call them "reserved". Checkers should > ignore them by default. I believe you misunderstood my sentence there. To rephrase it: if a web page contains a <small> element, does it need to pass conformance checks? Meaning that browser can keep doing "special" things with those elements, but that doesn't mean that they need to be ratified as part of the standard and, therefore, pass a validation/conformance check. > Anyhow, I just remembered I once considered to make a proposal to keep > |big| for logographic characters inside alphabetic script, because they > are often unreadable in 16px / 12pt. To me that sounds like an issue that squarely falls in the arena of user agent accessibility guidelines, and has *nothing* to do with how a content should be marked up in a document...but that's an aside. 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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