[thelist] semantic markup

[Tim Beadle]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 15:05, Diane Soini wrote:
> I am wondering, however, what is there out there that actually only 
> reads a web page in its strictest semantic form? And how exactly would 
> it stumble over a <b> tag as opposed to an <em> tag. I would like to 
> try this thing out and run some tests.

Not much so far, but there's this:
http://www.w3.org/2003/12/semantic-extractor.html

This sort of stuff will really matter one day. I guess it's a case of
how future-resistant (I think future-proofing is impossible) you want
your code to be.

> Oh, and I think it is sort of strange that in the print world, fonts 
> themselves have bold and italic faces, but not strong and emphasis 
> faces.

Because humans, not computers, read print?

Tim
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