Re: Nullifying insidious HTML 3.2 constructs

Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> I agree with your last sentence,  but not (necessarily) with the
> preceding; if HTML lacks a <FOO> element, then which is better :
> 
>     <em class="foo"> or <span class="foo">
> 
> when the /normal/ typographic representation of a foo leads to
> visual emphasis ?

<i> obviously. (Perhaps with a CLASS attribute, if needed. However, such 
an attribute is generally not added by content authors because they 
simply do not care.)

Using EM would be tag abuse.


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  Anne van Kesteren
  <http://annevankesteren.nl/>

Received on Friday, 18 February 2005 14:26:44 UTC