> > 3) Physical styles should remain seperate tag's as they are currently
> > implemented in HTML. (I.e <b> instead of <em b>). The <em> tag should
> > refer exclusivly to logical role's, and not physical styles.
>
> The single tag mechanism was adopted to solve the issue of a proliferation
> of emphasis tags. Everyone has different ideas on the appropriate set, and
> I felt that we needed a mechanism that didn't freeze in today's prejudices.
>
> Physical styles are hints to the browser, and independent of the logical
> role of emphasis. I forsee browsers ascribing particular styles to certain
> roles which override the hints. It didn't seem worth keeping <b>, <i> and <u>
> given that the others had been removed.
I can imagine that in real practice the use of the "logical" hints will be
scarce, while we'll see prolific use of the physical ones. As someone who
has to actually create these documents by hand, its certainly nicer to type
singular tags, as well as see them close off nicely (same argument as the </>
for me here..) i.e.
<em b>This word is <em i>italic</em></em>
vs.
<b>This word is <i>italic</i></b>
Anyone else feel the same way? Or am I just looney? :)
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
http://rs560.cl.msu.edu:82/afsmsu/user/h/e/henrich/public/web/henrich.html
> 3) The definition of <P> allows some attributes (I believe an "ID" for
> a link destination) that label the paragraph. Unfortunately <P> is
> between two paragraphs -- which one gets the attributes? (Some styles
> of formatting raw HTML keep the <P> tags consistently at the end of
> the first paragraph, others don't.)
I noticed this also as I was going over the document again. It would be nice
if there were a <justify> tag instead of putting justify options inside the <p>
tag. The <justify> tag shouldnt cause a paragraph break, for example:
<justify left>Left Justified<justify right>Right justified<p>
should produce:
Left Justified Right Justified
Granted, this is rather unlikely case, but it may be desired in some
situations. In any case, the justification hints definatly shouldnt be part of
the paragraph break tag. (IMHO of course ;)
Id also like to suggest adding a "flush" option to the <justify> tag, that
presents nicely flushed text. In conjunction with the <fig> tags, a magazine
style article could be represented almost identically in HTML as on paper.
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
http://rs560.cl.msu.edu:82/afsmsu/user/h/e/henrich/public/web/henrich.html