- From: Steve Knoblock <knoblock@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 11:55:12 -0500
- To: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>, www-style@www10.w3.org
I think people will learn as hypertext becomes a universal medium. When they start making up their own elements via sub-classing they will have to think in terms of content and structure to get it right. I've not worked with SGML directly but if we move toward SGML browsers, I think that will push for correctness and a 'content' philosophy. If people use a WYSIWYG editor with a selection of content elements like <copyright> and <sidebar> they may start to see things in terms of meaning and not presentation. MS Word is an interesting specimen. It already builds documents up by applying styles to structural elements. Perhaps editors like this can substitute <cite>, <em> or such for <i> automatically, attaching an appropriate style. Otherwise, the only solution to the <i> or <b> problem is to educate or deprecate. my $0.02 Steve >For the people who don't choose to notice that there's a difference >between <em> and <i>, I'm not convinced that there is any hope >at all. There are those who think we have all day to spend downloading >callow plugins in order to browser their pages. > -:- City Gallery ed.- http://www.webcom.com/cityg PhotoGen list admin. -:- Steve Knoblock, knoblock@worldnet.att.net _/ Member: Natl. Stereo. Assoc. http://www.tisco.com/3d-web/nsa/nsa.htm
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