[whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 Feedback

fantasai fantasai.lists at inkedblade.net
Wed Apr 13 12:05:49 PDT 2005


Ian Hickson wrote:
> 
> Another criteria is "could the presentation be changed without losing its 
> meaning?". For example, with <em> clearly you can change the presentation 
> without losing the fact that it is emphasis: whether it is bigger or 
> italics doesn't make much difference. But with <sub> I don't think you 
> can. If you change the presentation of <sub> you _do_ change the perceived 
> meaning of the rendered content.

Subscripts can be marked with brackets when subscripting isn't available.
Superscripts can likewise be done with ^. But it's not ideal.

~fantasai



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