Re: Two new encoding related articles for review

Richard Ishida scripsit (2014-03-24 18:33+01:00):
> On 20/03/2014 19:08, Gunnar Bittersmann wrote:
>> My proposal is: Display encoding names as normal text, no markup.
>
> I think you are coming at this from a different angle than I intended.

Ahhh, indeed.

> […] It's adhoc styling, intended to help readers quickly zoom in on
> references to the encodings referred to in that section that are
> discouraged. It's specific to that section, and the UTF-8 and
> ISO-8859-8-i encodings are not discouraged, so are not highlighted.

Now I understand your intention. It doesn’t come out through typography, 
IMHO.

The monospace typeface somehow indicates code, in this case the code 
values that should be used to fill the gaps in `<meta charset="…"/>` or 
`@charset …;`.

Monospace type does not indicate that these values should not be used.

Changing font color to red does (you could use a more saturated red), 
`text-decoration: line-through` would also do.

Its new meaning in HTML5 would make the s element appropriate here:
<s class="deprecated">JIS_C6226-1983</s> etc.


> I changed the text to "(Hebrew encoding for visually ordered text)"

Hm, encoding for visually ordered Hebrew text?

Cheers,
Gunnar

Received on Tuesday, 25 March 2014 11:08:50 UTC