Re: Re STRONG, B, I, and U

Bill Janssen ([email protected])
Tue, 1 Jun 1993 12:06:34 PDT


Excerpts from ext.WorldWideWeb: 1-Jun-93 Re STRONG, B, I, and U
[email protected] (1477)

> I think this is perhaps a bit extreme, and in practice most people would
> prefer some preservation of italic emphasis etc. (an empirical question)

I agree. My only point is that the markup format which preserves such
italic emphasis should not be HTML, it should be something else, perhaps
Adobe Acrobat (or whatever they've renamed it to).

> Perhaps we ought to use <EMPH> for all inline emphasis! This gets around
> the problem in dealing with every growing categories for different needs.
> You then would see elements like:

> <EMPH tag="author">H. G. Wells</EMPH>

> The Web could then have an evolving set of well known categories.
> Unrecognised categories would simply be ignored by the browser. Users
> would also be able to change how the browser renders each category.

I think I see a smiley here, but it's not such a silly idea. I've been
working on something similar, a procedural markup scheme in which the
reason for the markup occurs along with the markup.

Bill