We have <strong>, we should have <weak> :)
On 5/17/07, Ben Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is the best way to show something is less important than the > surrounding information (e.g. the date of a post or article, > supplementary information at the bottom of a post or article)? Really there's no element other than <small> which comes close to helping out here; otherwise it really is just a case of using CSS and that's not adding semantics, just style. In typical western communication, people do refer to "fine print" for supplementary information. The implication of small text is often that it has to be there but nobody expects you to read it. In actual fact the small text is often extremely important but full of legal mumbling that the average reader won't understand anyway. I wouldn't expect that same implication for the date of a post though. So in my culture at least, <small> sort of does what you want. But I have no idea at all if the "smaller text" paradigm translates in the slightest for other cultures. So it's just a tad weak, semantically speaking :) HTML5 does add semantics for <small> but again the semantics described do not work for the date. -Ben -- --- <http://www.200ok.com.au/> --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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