- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:58:58 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-style@w3.org
> the sentence, so things such as italics, bolding, even coloring, change = > the semantics of the document. In HTML you use <em> to indicate the semantics, then style em to meet the cultural conventions for emphasis in the target language, so semantics comes before italics. In typeset Eurpean documents, italics are often used for emphasis. Colour is more of a problem as colour is often used to give a secondary message. Secondary messages in advertising often cannot be made explicit as they are attempting to make associations with the product that are not actually attributes of the product. Admitting that some styling tactics used in advertising are part of the semantics would not go well with various regulatory bodies.
Received on Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:59:02 UTC