On 12 May 2010 14:24, Conrad Irwin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/12/2010 01:11 PM, Svip wrote: >> On 12 May 2010 13:57, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> You could use <span style="font-weight: bold">, but what's the point of >>> that? >> >> Because it would be correct HTML. > > It's foul HTML... The whole point is that you say what you mean, not > what it should look like.
How is bold and italic things you say? Maybe my own language isn't that nuanced. >>> Using <b> and <i> where what you really want is to make it bold and >>> italic isn't deprecated. >> >> Incorrect, they are deprecated exactly for that reason, because the >> HTML should in no way imply the style and appearance of the content. >> Let CSS take care of that. Of course, you could do <span class="i"> >> and <span class="b"> instead, to make it neater. And it would follow >> the standard too. > > It isn't deprecated. Okay, correct, but it is 'discouraged'. They even removed them in XHTML 2.0, not that anyone uses that. Though, I don't think it is going out of HTML5. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
