Tim,
As several other people have tried to explain, an HR is always used, in
printed media, as a separator or divider of some sort. It may be abused
for visual effect on the web, but in print it always has a semantic
meaning, even if it can be a little subtle and hard to define. Nobody
appear to be arguing that an HR should appear in every document, but
where it is used in the same manner as it is used in print, it cannot
adequately be simulated by CSS, and should not be either or the semantic
meaning would be lost to text-only browsers, etc.
I agree that words are important on the web, but they are not
everything, and should not be. I am sure you are aware of Google's
attempts to improve its image categorisation for example, and Video has
ever-increasing importance. Therefore your implication that nothing can
be added to bare words to create meaning is simply ridiculous.
Regards,
Mike
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Kirton
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:32 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WSG] HR tag and Semantics
Tim
On 06/02/07, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It seems to me that what some people are really
concerned about is that
you cannot stuff keywords into a HR tag?
That is not the real concern from my perspective, it is simply a
fact that it adds nothing other than a visual effect that can be
achieved by other means in CSS. Words are everything on the web,
without them we have no content and no meaning, and certainly things are
being debased by people who keyword stuff - one of Barney's original
points (display:none) .
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