[whatwg] Tagcloud semantics

[Kristof Zelechovski]

How would you style EM[weight]?
Chris

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[mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 6:00 AM
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Subject: [whatwg] Tagcloud semantics

Hello,


I was wondering what markup one could use for tag clouds and similar
ways to convey different importance of marked up content. Current
popular markup involves nested <em> elements, which strikes me as kinda
complicated and, in extreme cases hard to read.

I was thinking along the lines of a @weight attribute whose value would
range from 0 (least importance) to 1 (maximum importance) due to
normalisation (scaling according to power law). This could also used in
normal text to confer the amount of stress put into phrases - say, for a
voice client.

I'm aware that this is probably a stupid idea, but, as I said, nested
<em>s (and custom class names even more so) strike me as particularly
difficult.


Cheers,

Nils