Re: code, samp, kbd, var

Tina Holmboe wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:55:58AM +1000, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> 
>> common typographical style.  Since you insist on being able to mark up 
>> semantics, instead of marking up presentation, then keeping <var> in 
> 
> As a purely philosophical query ... would not an insistence to mark
> up semantics be rather the point of generic coding and a document
> markup language?

Within reason, yes.

> Or have someone officially redefined HTML as a presentational language
> while I was looking the other way?

No, but we have to strike an appropriate balance between a strict 
separation of presentation and semantics, and having a set of useful and 
practical elements.

-- 
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/

Received on Tuesday, 15 May 2007 05:33:40 UTC