- From: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:21:22 -0500
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, www-international@w3.org
2011/1/29 Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>: > 2011/1/29 Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>: >> Isn't "this group of characters is a word / personal name" a matter of >> _markup_, not style? That is, to tell that a sequence of characters is a >> name seems like it either involves good understanding of the context the >> sequence is used in (sounds like a hard AI problem) or the author explicitly >> marking it up as a name; that's semantic information, not stylistic. I seem >> to recall there being discussion about adding a <name> element to HTML5, >> though I'm not sure it went anywhere. (Sorry about the tons of typos in my previous reply. I probably shouldn't have hit the Send key so quickly.) By the way I wouldn't say a NAME element is a general solution here. It of course would be a solution to a specific part of the problem space, but that would be Chinese-specific and not a general solution, and it does not even address Koji's original example. And we'd still need CSS support even if there were a NAME element. Currently, as far as I can tell, nothing will work for the reasons I cited in my previous reply. -- cheers, -ambrose
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