On 8 Feb 2007, at 15:23, Leons Petrazickis wrote:
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>).
I don't like the look of "<hi>" — it doesn't tell me what it does very well. Maybe it stands for Horizontal Italic, or is some kind of markup greeting element:
File: <hi> Browser: <hi> File: <i have some html for you> Browser: <cool> It seems to impart too much of a visual origin too. Like <b> and<i> did.I still think <mark> would be better. It's short enough not to be annoying, and long enough to be self explanatory.
People don't necessarily mark text much -- if anything, "mark" implies underlining, circling, drawing arrows...
...or highlighting with a fluorescent marker pen!
The default styling of <hi> would be a neon yellow background. Google's choice of #ffff66 could well be suitable.
If you set the background colour you MUST set the foreground colour too!
mark { background-color: #FF6; color: black; }
- Nicholas.
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