On May 7, 2006, at 16:09, Simon Pieters wrote:
I've been thinking about authoring tools and presentational markup. Forget my earlier suggesetion to reuse <b> instead of <m>. :-)
I suggest <u> is reused instead of <m>.
Therefore I think that <b> and <i> should represent bold and italics, and authoring tools should use these elements when the UI says bold and italics.
+1!
Also, since HTML cannot have semantic elements for *all* purposes, I think <b> and <i> should be conforming to use whenever there's no other suitable element type for the purpose and bold or italics is the typographical convension for the purpose.
I'd go even further and say that using <i> and <b> is always conforming for marking up text that follows a typographical convention of italicizing or bolding.
[1] http://accessifyforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=5096
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