El jue, 06-05-2004 a las 18:08, Peter Firminger escribi�: > > I'm sure lot's of people probably use <em> when they aren't really > > emphasising something, but simply wanting to make something italic. > > Absolutely! In natural science (specifically speaking about species names > here) Italics are the way to present the scientific name (genus species pair > or "senior synonym" like <i>Thorunna australis</i> or even just the species > or shorthand variations), not "emphasis". I think there is a good argument > for using <i> here as it isn't ambiguous in any way that I want italics. In > this case <em> is just semantically wrong and <i> simply should not be > deprecated. >
I'm sure there are times when i is the right element to use, but your example is not one :) If the markup means 'look, this is a genus species pair', please make it tell so: 1) <seniorsynonym>Thorunna Australis</seniorsynonym> 2) <span class="seniorsynonim">Thorunna Australis</seniorsynonym> 3) <i>Thorunna Australis</i> 1) is not available to current browsers without involving extra technology 2) is nice, clean and optimal in the current day and time. 3) is pretty useless > > But in most cases we certainly don't need this as we are marking up text for > the sake of displaying text, not extraction for any other reason by any > other agent. The extra bytes are a total waste of bandwidth and when you get > to heavily used repositories of text-based factsheets like > http://amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfacts/specfam.htm or > http://seaslugforum.net/species.htm it can make quite a difference in speed > and money. First, i don't think we should discuss specific cases. If you need to save bandwith by using i instead of span.class, it's entirely up you of course. We're talking general principles/best practices I don't think (given that we are using clean, well marked code) that there's a clear and present global need for saving bandwith by switching from span.class >- Manuel trabaja para Simplel�gica, construcci�n 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 *****************************************************
