- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:55:56 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
David Woolley wrote: >> em and strong when it comes to semantics (an important text) >> font-style:italic font-weight:bolder when it comes to >>presentation (a different way to show it) > > As noted, this is off topic, but is often discussed. The reasons they still > exist is that there are occasions when being italic is of the essence of the > construct. How can a presentational value be "of the essence"? Typographical tradition or custom, maybe, but "essence"? If it's so intrinsically linked, how can it be conveyed in other forms of communication, like speech, then? -- Patrick H. Lauke __________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com __________________________________________________________ Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ __________________________________________________________
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