On Monday, 13 August 2012, Philip TAYLOR > > i.e., leave font-weight and style to the browser, which can be relied > on to do the intelligent thing. >
if you consider <b> and <i> elements to be purely presentational, then I guess you can leave browsers to their own devices. But I work on sites that are multilingual and where user generated content could be in any language, so if these elememts are purely presentational then they should never occur in the templates or in user content. If on the other hand you see these elements as symantic, then the resets make sense, since the appearance of these elements should be styled on a per language or a per writing script basis. If the <b> and I elements are symantic, then <b> isn't necessarily bold, and <i> isn't necessarily italic -- Andrew Cunningham Project Manager, Research and Development Social and Digital Inclusion Unit Public Libraries and Community Engagement State Library of Victoria 328 Swanston Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia Ph: +61-3-8664-7430 Mobile: 0459 806 589 Email: acunning...@slv.vic.gov.au lang.supp...@gmail.com http://www.openroad.net.au/ http://www.mylanguage.gov.au/ http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/