- From: Joe English <joe@trystero.art.com>
- Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 09:26:14 PDT
- To: www-style@www10.w3.org
hopmann@holonet.net (Alex Hopmann) wrote: > > > A generic character-level text container tag in HTML 3.0 would be > > > extremely useful for applying styles to certain blocks of text. I propose > > > the following tag: > > > <TEXT>...</TEXT> > > > >This would be very useful indeed, and will talk to Dave Raggett about > This seems similar in intent to the <C> tag that I propsed in my character > formatting proposal (With the obvious addition of style sheet information). > > Is that correct? What are the relative merrits of calling it <C> (character) > vs. <TEXT>? The name "FONT" should also be considered, since that's already deployed as an experimental Netscape extension. (There it's only used to specify the font size, but other presentation-only attributes could be added as well). Personally, I prefer "TEXT" over "FONT" or "C". I agree that there is a need for such a tag. Although in *most* cases one of the semantic elements like <EM>, <STRONG>, or <DFN> is more appropriate, there are plenty of Web pages which apply formatting for the sake of formatting, and there is currently no general-purpose semantics-free phrase-level element which can be used for this purpose. --Joe English joe@art.com
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