Patrick You may have misunderstood my approach, or we may agree to differ
Katrina's remark was "My final answer is to place it in spans, such as <span class="species" lang="latin">Echium plantagineum</span> because:" I am suggesting that an <em> should be used with the same class. That is if she so wishes or as convention dictates, latin emphasis can be made italic and globally changed if required later. Other forms of emphasis could be applied for non latin phrases / other purposes. I see it presentation of the semantic meaning and as such would not use a purely presentational element such as <i> -- Regards - Rob Raising web standards : http://ele.vation.co.uk Linking in with others : http://linkedin.com/in/robkirton On 18/01/07, Patrick H. Lauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quoting Rob Kirton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Andrew > > I believe that Kat is correct in her approach, though would suggest that the > class is applied to an <em> tag set, therefore will still be shown as being > employed even if CSS is disabled for whatever reason. Noooo...if it's not an emphasis, don't mark it up as emphasis. End of the day: if you're really after showing a visual style even if CSS is unavailable or disabled, heck, stick with presentational markup and use <i> then, and don't abuse <em> where it's not appropriate. P -- Patrick H. Lauke __________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com __________________________________________________________ Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ __________________________________________________________ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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