Brian Heinrich wrote: > > On 11 Jul 2002, it is alleged that fantasai sauntered in to > netscape.public.mozilla.documentation and loudly proclaimed: ...
All good points, of course. I would hardly say "loudly proclaimed", though, since I did slip almost all of that in with an example I originally wrote up to demonstrate the use of class="para" in the Markup Guide. :) I don't claim any expertise in technical documentation; this bit of text you're tearing apart is just my reaction to some of the online documentation I've had to read. As for lists, you might want to re-read the actual text of my message and then compare the rendered result of the example with what would be the text if I had forced that list into paragraph form. > Most often, yes. There are various ways in which to go about this. (BTW, > fantasai, this is part of my problem with structural/semantic tags: there > are time I want to highlight information in a purely physical/presentational > way, and often the rationale for doing so is simply to give a bit of > guidance to a reader who might just be skimming the text.) But using <b> to do so will not help anyone without a graphical browser. At least if you declare your intent--which is to highlight the information--someone can write the necessary style rules for devices with other capabilities. (Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean they /will/, but it makes it possible to do so later without recoding your pages. ;) ~fantasai
