[whatwg] Re: Are the semantic inline elements really useful?

[James Graham]

James Graham wrote:

>  But instead there isn't a clear design goal other than "citations 
> should be recognisable as such"

make that "citations should be recognisable as such _by_UAs_". The spec 
does nothing to (encourage UAs to) make citations recognisable to 
humans. Indeed in all UAs I've ever used citations are indistinguishable 
from random italic text without significant effort...


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