<font face="georgia, serif" size="4">"<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Certainly though, the semantics of HTML elements are only relatively</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">vague, and don't rise to the level of understanding the specific meaning</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">of the text of a page."</span></font><div>
<font><font color="#222222" face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font color="#222222" face="georgia, serif" size="4">Exactly - which is why I said that semantic tags couldn't be expected any time soon :-) I understand how this mis-naming has happened: the compilers of the standard were looking for a word to describe this function:</font></font></div>
<div><font><font color="#222222" face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">"the same page can also be used by a small browser on a mobile phone, without any change to the page. Instead of headings being in large letters as on the desktop, for example, the browser on the mobile phone might use the same size text for the whole the page, but with the headings in bold." </span></font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">and, of course, there isn't a single word, at least not as far as I'm aware in English and so, some member of the team came up with the suggestion, "Let's call them semantic" and everyone happily agreed in order to get out of the dilemma. The statement above was prefaced by "</span></font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">Because HTML conveys </span><em style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">meaning</em><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">, rather than presentation,..." but what is described is not a transfer of meaning from the html to the screen, but exactly, presentation.</span></font></div>
<div><font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 November 2012 17:14, Ian Hickson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch" target="_blank">ian@hixie.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="http://whatwg.org/html#sections" target="_blank">http://whatwg.org/html#sections</a></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">
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