Hey list,
We have two elements, EM and STRONG, to emphasise text as being more
important than the text around it, but we don't seem to have any
elements to show that text is less important than the surrounding
text.
What is the best way to show something is less important than the
surrounding
What about small/small
sub/sub Subscript lower than the text
sup/sup Superscript higher than the text, maybe just a number
linked to a date in the page footer
Or in a stylesheet make a class of smaller text.
Tim
On 16/05/2007, at 9:04 PM, Blake Haswell wrote:
Hey list,
We have two
Hi Blake,
Garret Dimmon used small for the purpose you are suggesting in his site
redesign. He explains his reasoning behind it in this article on digital
web (http://www.digital-web.com/articles/coding_for_content/).
It's down to personal preference but I think the reasoning is pretty good.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim
sub/sub Subscript lower than the text
sup/sup Superscript higher than the text, maybe just a number
linked to a date in the page footer
Or in a stylesheet make a class of smaller text.
Those three examples are all
From: Jixor - Stephen I:
To me small would imply of less importance,
like a side note. if you just want text to
be smaller for design purposes it shouldn't
be in a small
... well since the specification says exactly the opposite of that ...
'Renders text in a small font.'
--
In light of current events, the only proper use of small in my mind
is this one:
smallNicolas Sarkozy/small
;)
On May 16, 2007, at 4:11 PM, David Dorward wrote:
From: Jixor - Stephen I:
To me small would imply of less importance,
like a side note. if you just want text to
be smaller for
Jixor - Stephen I wrote:
To me small would imply of less importance, like a side note. if you
just want text to be smaller for design purposes it shouldn't be in a small
would that imply big is more important?
--
Andrew Cunningham
Research and Development Coordinator
Vicnet, Public
Andrew Cunningham wrote:
Jixor - Stephen I wrote:
To me small would imply of less importance, like a side note. if you
just want text to be smaller for design purposes it shouldn't be in a
small
would that imply big is more important?
big and small are both presentational in the HTML
What is the best way to show something is less important than the
surrounding information (e.g. the date of a post or article,
supplementary information at the bottom of a post or article)?
Really there's no element other than small which comes close to
helping out here; otherwise it really is
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
For less important, there currently isn't an
alternative, so small (albeit presentational)
may be the only option ... or just going for a
span, which is semantically just as meaningless.
FWIW, I use the small element on my blog, on my latest WordPress theme, and
for
We have strong, we should have weak
:)
On 5/17/07, Ben Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the best way to show something is less important than the
surrounding information (e.g. the date of a post or article,
supplementary information at the bottom of a post or article)?
Really
inside pages. Like so:
h1span/spanAccessites.org
smallbr /The Art of Accessibility/small/h1How correct or
semantically pure this method is I do not know. I am comfortable with
it is
all. The span is meaningless, but does happen to contain the
[replacement]
image over the still
At 5/16/2007 04:04 AM, Blake Haswell wrote:
We have two elements, EM and STRONG, to emphasise text as being more
important than the text around it, but we don't seem to have any
elements to show that text is less important than the surrounding
text.
What is the best way to show something is
We have strong, we should have weak
Many a true word said in jest :)
Trying to add semantics to small is driven by history rather than
good semantics. Small text is a presentational result of
de-emphasising text.
We have:
normal text
emphasised text
strongly emphasised text
Maybe we should
Ben Buchanan wrote:
So in my culture at least, small sort of does what you want. But I
have no idea at all if the smaller text paradigm translates in the
slightest for other cultures. So it's just a tad weak, semantically
speaking :)
it doesn't.
And for some writing scripts, unless the end
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
Andrew Cunningham wrote:
Jixor - Stephen I wrote:
To me small would imply of less importance, like a side note. if you
just want text to be smaller for design purposes it shouldn't be in a
small
would that imply big is more important?
big and small are both
Specific to your situation, I question whether an article's date or
its supplementary text is really best characterized as being less
important than the article itself. That doesn't strike me as a
useful semantic distinction. In the absence of markup elements
date and supplement, you may be
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