--- Martin Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > > > > 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 â 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). > > > > The *meaning* is that the content is highlighted. > The concept of "highlighting" something is not presentational.
No the *meaning" is that the content is important. > > When I'm giving a speech, I can "highlight" a certain fact that my > listeners might not have been aware of. (e.g. by saying "Allow me to > highlight the fact that...") > > "highlight" just means "draw attention to", which is exactly what > Google's cache highlighting is trying to do, and what a student > highlighting passages in a book is trying to do. The highlighting has no > effect on the content, it's just a navigation aid. By drawing attention to something you indicating that it is important. > > While the presentation in graphical browsers would likely resemble that > of paper â that is, a yellow background ââan aural browser wouldn't > draw > attention to the mark as it is being read. It would hopefully instead > allow a user to quickly skip between passages containing highlighted > text much as sighted people do with their eyes as they scan over a page > with highlighted text. > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail
