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 presentational in the HTML 4.1 spec. For
important stuff, there are the semantic alternatives (<em> and
<strong>), so those should be used. 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.
I was being rhetorical, although on the other hand you raise an
interesting issue.
HTML5, rather than defining a new semantic equivalent, endows <small>
with semantics post-facto (as they've done with a few other such
instances). Not saying that I agree with that, and not saying that this
should influence the choice to make *today* using HTML 4.1 (or XHTML 1.x).
I suspect that <small> would only be semantic markup in some languages
in some instances, and more generally speaking its purely presentational
(at least from an i18n perspective).
Andrew
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