Alan Trick wrote:
Acording to the WHAT-WG the <small> element does have semantic meaning.
I don't have the link though. They basically said that it was good for
things like 'small print' and such cases. I think <small> is an unusal
case here and is meanigful and useful.
Alan Trick
I think that when we are trying to apply accessibility principles we
need to try to keep in mind the notion of device independance, and to a
blind user <small> and <big> have no relevant descriptive meaning,
because that element is then telling them that the word or phrase is
either *small* or *large* in size, which isn't a true semantic markup,
it's presentational.
I like Tim Bray's discussion on Descriptive markup as opposed to
Semantic markup.
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/09/SemanticMarkup
Geoff Deering
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