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Re: Re: Is it time to rely on CSS?


On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 06:41, Norman Walsh wrote:
> The point is, what should be generated for those places where some
> formatting distinction would be desirable even in the case when CSS is
> not used? Or when HTML doesn't provide semantic markup for the distinction?
> 
> There are two cases:
> 
> 1. Elements that you'd like to have distinguished and where there's reasonable
>    HTML markup that can be used.
> 
> 2. Elements that you'd like to have distinguished but for which no HTML
>    markup provides the desired effect.
> 
> Figure titles are an example of the first case. Using:
> 
>   <p><b>Figure Title</b></p>
> 
> produces a decent result in basically all browsers. Using
> 
>   <div class="figtitlediv"><span class="figtitle">Figure Title</span></div>
> 
> would be semantically purer in some ways, but would be indistinct if
> no CSS was provided.

Well, I'll have to agree with Jirka, in the thread "CSS for command
tag":  why not do both?

example:

<p class="figure_title"><b>Figure Title</b></p>

or

<p><span class="figure_title"><b>Figure Title</b></span></p>

That way, a user can write a CSS selector to ignore the <b> under a
p.figure_title...



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Matt Meola    AFØD
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