On Sep 20, 2008, at 01:41, Ozob the Great wrote:
I am concerned about the existence of HTML5's <var>. This was brought to my attention during a technical debate on Wikipedia which amounted to: Where is use of <var> appropriate?
One can use <var> instead of <i> to style a variable or placeholder differently from non-placeholder text.
The use cases for <var> probably aren't strong enough to warrant its addition to HTML at this stage if it hadn't been in HTML already--you might as well use <i>. However, given that <var> has already been in HTML for a long time, it probably isn't harmful enough to make it non- conforming. Actually, its main harm is the opportunity cost of the debates about when it's appropriate to use it. :-/
-- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
