On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:57:09PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 05:34:51PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
There's a difference between semantics (justified, preformatted, list) and content (poem, TV script, needed groceries). So, yeah, it's me asking that.
You're correct, there's a difference.
But, as far as I can see, those first ones are rather specifically not semantics; they're *syntax*. Looks, not meaning.
Which was sort of my point, as well, I believe, as that of Timwi.
In retrospect, the argument about what constitutes "semantic" tags could go either way. I was thinking presentational semantics and you were thinking of semantic presentation, basically. Yes, that's a meaningful sentence.
I'm not sure I agree that semantic presentation is really a great idea to implement in markup tags. Rather, it seems to be something that should be managed via properties that are attached to tags. It provides sort of a natural hierarchical inheritance model, rather than (by way of analogy) sticking every single file on your hard drive in the root directory, like the FAT12 filesystem did.
Maybe that's not a concern here, though. I admit I haven't been much involved in thinking about wiki markup needs overall.