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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 13:22:20 +0100, max <[email protected]> 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. >> >> >> -- >> Matma Rex >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Design mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > > > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > -- Denis Moyogo Jacquerye African Network for Localisation http://www.africanlocalisation.net/ Nkótá ya Kongó míbalé --- http://info-langues-congo.1sd.org/ DejaVu fonts --- http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/ _______________________________________________ Design mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design
