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>). 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.
In my eyes such an element is presentational – a more generic element, but one with semantic meaning, like <m> is far more relevant (although it may well be a good idea to suggest it be rendered as highlighted).
- Geoffrey Sneddon
