[whatwg] Authoring tools and presentational markup
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen at iki.fi
Mon May 8 08:24:52 PDT 2006
On May 7, 2006, at 16:09, Simon Pieters wrote:
> I've been thinking about authoring tools and presentational markup.
> Forget my earlier suggesetion to reuse <b> instead of <m>. :-)
I suggest <u> is reused instead of <m>.
> Therefore I think that <b> and <i> should represent bold and
> italics, and authoring tools should use these elements when the UI
> says bold and italics.
+1!
> Also, since HTML cannot have semantic elements for *all* purposes,
> I think <b> and <i> should be conforming to use whenever there's no
> other suitable element type for the purpose and bold or italics is
> the typographical convension for the purpose.
I'd go even further and say that using <i> and <b> is always
conforming for marking up text that follows a typographical
convention of italicizing or bolding.
> [1] http://accessifyforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=5096
Not the first time a tool confuses UI and markup. :-/
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Henri Sivonen
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