Andrew Cunningham wrote:
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
I cannot imagine any situation in which the <b> and <i> elements could ever be anything other than purely presentational; obviously the preferred semantic elements are <strong> and <em>, but they are for authors : with a CSS reset, we are attempting to re-style extant documents over which we may have little or no control. Philip Taylor ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
