Leons Petrazickis wrote:
They are marking the search terms with a highlighter. In an aural browser, would these terms be read differently? Perhaps. Does this transfer to mobile browsers? Very definitely.
How would an auraul browser treak these terms differently? I can perhaps imagine some sort of generated content e.g. the foo <m>bar</m> would be read "the foo `begin mark` bar `end mark`" but it's not entirely convincing.
In the Western world, the standard for highlighting is a neon yellow background. I submit that a much better name for <m> is <hi> (<hilite>, <highlite>, <highlight>). People don't necessarily mark text much -- if anything, "mark" implies underlining, circling, and drawing arrows -- but they do highlight. In university, I often saw students perched with their notes and a highlighter, marking important sections. The semantic meaning is to draw attention for later review.
Sure. But what useful features could a general purpose UA implement if this semantic information is made avaliable to it?
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