Subject: Re: Formatting Objects considered harmful From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:24:58 +0200 (MET DST) |
Fredrik Lindgren wrote: > I dont understand in what way EM and STRONG can be viewed as semantic. > What is the meaning of the contents of an EM element? > > I see them as abstract presentational elements. No meaning, but abstract > enough for allowing rendering on both screen an aurally. I can > understand that you want presentation objects at that abstraction level, > but still, there are no semantics. I agree that "abstract" and "media-independent" are better terms in the case of EM and STRONG. "Semantics" is somewhat overloaded. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie http://www.operasoftware.com/people/howcome howcome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx simply a better browser XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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