[whatwg] The m element

[Lachlan Hunt]

Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
> I fail to see how this is different from an em element... (very loose and abused 
> semantics, but I dont see how adding a new element to mess up is helpful)

<em> is for emphasis, <m> is not.  They have very different meanings.

>> <zcorpan> one reason might be to highlight search terms, another may
>> be to mark errors in the document, or things you should remember
>> specifically
>>
>> <csarven> in those cases the marked text has no extra meaning other
>> then how it would be viewed or interpreted. "highlighting does not
>> change the reading of the text..."

That's right, whereas <em> does change the meaning of the text.

<m> is for highlighting text that is of some interest to the reader, but 
it does not alter the meaning of the text itself.

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