Jens O. Meiert wrote:
All these elements are still around [1-4] in the canonical HTML spec [5]. Their meanings have changed slightly, making them less presentational than in the past.
I would respectfully disagree. Their meanings have not changed one iota; the fact that the draft specification defines them to mean something other than what they have traditionally meant is just political correctness gone mad; they "mean" what they have always meant, and no amount of tampering with the prose in a draft specification can have any perceivable effect on that meaning whatsoever. In an HTML 5 document, the meaning has to be inferred from whatever version of the draft specification happens to be flavour of the month; for all extant HTML 4.01 and earlier documents, the meaning of <i>, <b>, <s> and <u> is exactly what it has always been and exactly what it will always be in the future. Philip Taylor ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
