David Latapie wrote:
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:58:35 +0200, Mikko Rantalainen wrote:
ignore and is usually orthogonal to the rest of the content. <small>
is something you usually skip but you must be aware of the content
(e.g. a copyright or license boilerplate) - the key here is that the
content is often repeated but if you have read it *once*, then you
may skip it later.
So, if I understanf you correctly, <small> is short for "important
legalse-like SMALL-print" and not just "SMALL-text">, right?
That's pretty much what the current WHATWG spec says:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-small
The latest HTML specification of small element
(http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#h-15.2.1) only says
"15.2.1 Font style elements: the TT, I, B, BIG, SMALL, STRIKE, S, and U
elements" and "SMALL: Renders text in a 'small' font". So either <small>
has no semantics at all (and should be dropped) or it has semantics
defined by WHATWG (which seems to describe the current usage in the wild).
--
Mikko
