[whatwg] <BIG> Element

Lachlan Hunt lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au
Fri Jan 13 14:20:05 PST 2006


Eugene T.S. Wong wrote:
> I noticed that there is a <SMALL> element, but no <BIG> element. Is 
> there a specific reason for this?

Both of them are quite presentational, but there is an attempt to 
redefine the small element with some semantic meaning.  The same cannot 
be said for big, it is (and probably always will be) presentational, and 
therefore has no place in a semantic markup language.

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Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/




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