Re: Re: Start -> Shut Down -> Log Out

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Foofy writes:
> replacing a bunch of unsemantic code and tables with equally unsemantic
> (but valid) divs and spans.
> 
> Basically we went from this:
>     <b>Hello there!</b>
> 
> To this:
>     <span class='boldtext'>Hello there!</b>

No, only people who didn't understand the point of non-presentational markup
did that.  The rest of us went from

  <b>Hello there!</b>

to

  <strong>Hello there!</strong>

or perhaps even, given that few people actually distinguish "emphasis" from
"strong emphasis", to

  <em>Hello there!</em>

with out-of-band stylesheet rules specifying that <em> is to be bold
and non-italic.

It's true that there are lots of people who write crap HTML containing
almost no elements other than <div> and <span>.  But that's (a) not the
fault of the W3C (unlike many other things), and (b) not really a software
hate.

-- 
Aaron Crane

• Foofy 21:44 on 12 Jul 2006
  • peter (Peter da Silva) 23:10 on 12 Jul 2006
  • Aaron Crane 11:35 on 13 Jul 2006
    • Re: Start -> Shut Down -> Log Out A. Pagaltzis 12:58 on 13 Jul 2006
• Re: Re: Start -> Shut Down -> Log Out Phil Pennock 23:22 on 12 Jul 2006
  • peter (Peter da Silva) 23:51 on 12 Jul 2006
    • Foofy 00:04 on 13 Jul 2006
    • Aaron Crane 11:27 on 13 Jul 2006

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