Re: [WSG] a target=” blank” not part of x html

2008-03-30 Thread Kane Tapping
>What I'm getting from the discussion to this point: >web *site* - new window bad; >web *app* - new window sometimes necessary >target="_blank" - deprecated* and probably bad in any circumstance Thats my position. the only difference being that if possible webapps should try to pop divs inside

Re: [WSG] Torrents of em and strong abuse (Was: Re: WSG Digest)

2008-03-30 Thread Keryx Web
Justin Sinclair skrev: Are there really torrents of and abuse out in the real world? I've been guilty of that sin in the past myself. I think the torrent was stemmed while still a creek - if that saying works in English. One might argue that it is possible to get such an impression in th

Re: [WSG] u, i, strong, em and I18N/L10N. (Was: Why is deprecated?)

2008-03-30 Thread Keryx Web
Andrew Cunningham skrev: although i'd go further and say that browsers implementing italic as default presentation for and bold as default presentation for are also wrong. Its attempting to make the typographic conventions of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts universal when they aren't. Its p

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2008-03-30 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Justin Sinclair wrote: I'm curious - I've read something similar to the following quote a bunch of times: Abusing just for italics or just for bolding, when no emphasis is intended is the same *sort of* abuse as using tables for layout. It is only abuse of a slightly lesser degree.

[WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2008-03-30 Thread Justin Sinclair
I'm curious - I've read something similar to the following quote a bunch of times: > Abusing just for italics or just for bolding, when no > emphasis is intended is the same *sort of* abuse as using tables for > layout. It is only abuse of a slightly lesser degree. > Are there really torrents o