Hi,
i want to comment on Matthew Thomas' 'When semantic markup goes bad' http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2004/05/02/b-and-i Basically, i think his main thesis is plain wrong <cite> These aren’t exhaustive lists, but as you can see, some reasons for using bold and italics don’t have their own semantic HTML elements. This is why b and i exist</cite> No, that's not why b and i exist. That's why span exists. The way i see it, if you need an new html element that is not available, you use 'span+appropiate identifier' If you need a <vector> element, you compensate for the lack of it with <span class="vector">R2</span> and then style it to bold. If you want to quote something on a foreign language and want it to appear in italics, you don't (as MPT proposes) mark it up as <i>mi mama me mima</i>, you mark it up with <span class="foreign" lang="es">mi mama me mima</span> and then style it to your liking If you have some time to read his post and comment on it, i'd really appreciate it :-) -- Manuel trabaja para Simplelógica, construcción web (+34) 985 22 12 65 http://simplelogica.net ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************