[thelist] Non-Deprecated HTML Presentational Elements (was, C SS Font Sizes)

Calum I Mac Leod calum at ciml.co.uk
Fri Mar 2 09:31:05 CST 2001


> > martin:
> > > "the plural of <em>ox</em> is <em>oxen</em>"
> > >
> > > Shurely.
Calum:
> > I'm a little unsure about that.
> >
> > Yes, <em> should probably make sense to a reader, and it may be the most
> > pragmatic solution today; but I don't think that it gets the _intent_
across
> > as we'd like.
<snip>
martin:
> Still don't see what's wrong with <em>, as the intent of italicising it in
> this context is to show emphasis.

If that's what you mean when you type it, then EM's a good choice.

I would see it as ssomething structurally closer to DD and DT.

> And <em> renders as italic by default in most UAs anyway.

That's not the point.  ;-)

> It shows a lot more structure than <i>.

I'm still unsure that it's the _right_ structural message.

Calum
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