The <b> and <i> elements were described only in presentational terms,
this is not the case anymore in HTML5 where they now have specific
semantic purpose:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/b.html
span of text offset from its surrounding content without conveying any
extra emphasis or importance, and for which the conventional
typographic presentation is bold text”
http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/i.html
span of text offset from its surrounding content without conveying any
extra emphasis or importance, and for which the conventional
typographic presentation is italic text”.
If one wants they don't have to follow the conventional typographic
presentation and use <b> for something other that bold text, or <i>
for something other than italic text.
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Peter Coombe
<thewub.wiki(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Indeed. See also the bugs where these were set to use
<b> and <i>
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370
And subsequent bugs asking for a change to <em> and <strong> which were
marked as INVALID / WONTFIX.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7921
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12550
Peter
On 30 November 2013 04:35, Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 13:22:20 +0100, max <max(a)koehler-kn.de> wrote:
I absolutely agree with your point. I wasn't
aware that wiki-syntax
inserts in fact <i> tags (and also <b> tags, which bring up the same
problems). That needs to be changed. We need clean, semantic markup in order
to adjust the styling to any given circumstances, as you perfectly
described.
This sucks, but it can't. The italics and bold weren't always used with
the semantic meaning of giving emphasis (as I mentioned in my previous
e-mail), so blindly replacing them with "semantic" tags and giving them
false meanings would be a step back.
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