On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 04:55:38PM +0000, Andrew Ingram wrote: > The only situation I can think of when there is an established visual > standard for certain things that don't really have a semantic emphasis.
This is the usual debate. The two schools of thought are: * They have no semantics, don't use them and * Certain semantics are represented with this style is presentation in traditional typography, use them to represent those semantics. It's an old debate, and neither side shows any sign of winning. > For example, when listing somebody's academic qualifications the > standard is to display the institution in italics but i'd say that it's > not appropriate to use <em>. Indeed. So it comes down to a choice of presentational markup or CSS. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
