The problem with <b> and <i> is that HTML5 gives them semantic meaning but they also have inherent styling.
Of I use these elements in a multilingual envirnonment, then for some languages I would need to change weight or style to normal, then use styling appropriate to the language. Andrew On 17/02/2014 9:32 AM, "Chris Rockwell" <ch...@chrisrockwell.com> wrote: > > > > It also seems that the semantic markup of HTML5 is limited to entire > divs, > > for example, and doesn't speak to the individual word or words which are > a > > subset of the divs..unless those words are in their own divs, rather than > > contained within others so tagged with proper semantic markup. > > > > I'm afraid I misunderstand you here, John: "semantic markup of HTML5 is > limited to entire divs,"; this might not be farther from the truth. A > <div> is a very abstract way to markup content and there is most likely a > better way to do it in every case - p, ul, blockquote, etc, etc. > > I honestly think I'm missing the point here, as I don't see how a span of > text could be marked up with <span class="keyword">keyword</span> and it > even be considered to be more semantic than <b>keyword</b>. Tags should > indicate what the content is, schema can be used to expand upon that, and > classes should be used to style - not to indicate meaning except in the > case of helping other developers understand the markup. > > > > > -- > Chris Rockwell > ______________________________________________________________________ > 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/ > ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
