Katrina wrote:
2) Language usage such as Latin as this is a long standing convention
in print and must be retained (thus not styled via CSS).
Example: <i lang="la">Lorem ispum</i>
I actually come across this situation from time to time and I have
ummed and ahhed over what the best thing to do is.
My final answer is to place it in spans, such as <span class="species"
lang="latin">Echium plantagineum</span> because:
1. The span offers flexibility: I have air-head moments where I decide
these things should be italic, and bold, and in a different font, and
then I decide the background should be a different colour. I can never
predict what sort of air-head moments I have from year to year, and
CSS allows me to cover for these moments quite easily. So I can change
them to these stupid settings and then quickly change them back again :)
2. The web is essentially about semantic text. The audience reading
your pages may not necessarily be human, and you need to open up your
data to be available to your audience. Placing these sorts of semantic
data in your code opens it up. The web is not about visual
presentation, but about data. This is a really scary but powerful
concept, that I believe will become even more important in the years
to come.
3. All in code is evaluated by Google (a non-human audience member),
and that includes the class name of the span. Your quality rating goes
up, and SEOs could say more, but I believe also your listing for
'species Echium plantagineum' goes up because of the inclusion of the
word 'species':)
So my argument is if you find you need to present it visually
different from surrounding text, ask yourself why. Why is this
special, and then mark it up with spans using that speciality.
Kat
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This seems interesting:
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-css-lang#answer
Bob
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
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