On 4/24/2014 9:59 AM, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 24 April 2014 at 08:17:15 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
As if <b> hasn't always implied the semantics of "emphasis"
anyway...not that anyone's ever had any real use for semantic "which
text is emphasized?" for any purpose besides "Should this text be
rendered in bold/italic or not?"
Funny though...I've never heard any of the semantic-web-loving,
<b>/etc haters complain about things like Markdown ;)
I use semantic markup for emphasis where it's supported. Can't say I
used markdown a lot, though I guess its semantics is more similar to
that of semantic markup than visual markup, I can say wiki markup is.
Markdown:
*italic*
**bold**
**_bold and italic_**
Although it appears to implement those using <em> and <strong>, which
strikes me as completely pointless and roundabout.
I'm thinking more about some standardization of web skins, then people
will choose their web skin of choice just like on desktop system, and
sites will use that chosen skin to present content and layout.
Unfortunately that'll never happen: It's already hard enough to get
*application* developers not to invent their own idiotic
user-disrespecting skin (with poorly homespun controls).
