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



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