[thelist] When the mix of visual appearance and meaning goes really bad

[Manuel González Noriega]

Hi,

i want to comment on Matthew Thomas' 'When semantic markup goes bad'
http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2004/05/02/b-and-i

Basically, i think his main thesis is plain wrong

<cite>
These aren’t exhaustive lists, but as you can see, some reasons for
using bold and italics don’t have their own semantic HTML elements. This
is why b and i exist</cite>

No, that's not why b and i exist. That's why span exists. 

The way i see it, if you need an new html element that is not available,
you use 'span+appropiate identifier' 

If you need a <vector> element, you compensate for the lack of it with
<span class="vector">R2</span> and then style it to bold. 

If you want to quote something on a foreign language and want it to
appear in italics, you don't (as MPT proposes) mark it up as <i>mi mama
me mima</i>, you mark it up with <span class="foreign" lang="es">mi mama
me mima</span> and then style it to your liking


If you have some time to read his post and comment on it, i'd really
appreciate it :-)



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