Peter Saint-Andre;2169 Wrote: > Pavel Simerda wrote: > > On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:40:49 +0200 > > Maciek Niedzielski <machekku (AT) uaznia (DOT) net> wrote: > > > >> Jehan wrote: > >>> But still for most end users, the best is wysiwyg > >> And this is why xhtml-im needs to be about formatting, not > semantics: > >> most end users want to get (and send) what they see. And they want > >> you to see what they see. > > > > I see no point in forbidding the semantics! > > > > I personally turn off xhtml-im as I have no way to just turn off > > styling (it's annoying to let others configure my fonts and colors, > > especially if it doesn't really work). If you don't forbid semantics, > I > > could turn off the styling and keep the seemantic part (styled to my > > own preferences). > > > > And... keeping the semantic markup doesn't do any harm to users that > > don't know about it. They'll just configure the fonts and colors, > that > > I don't care about (and I won't see). > > Right. I agree with both of you. :P > > So I say that we update XEP-0071 to no longer disallow semantic markup > > (in fact there's no real way to do that in XHTML Modularization > anyway!) > and encourage experimentation to see which elements people really want > > to use (I think it will be mostly <em> and <strong>, myself). > > /psa
Yeah! That would be nice! :-) And yes I think also that the two emphasizing tags (<em> and <strong>) are the two most useful tags above all others (or at least the most used)... Jehan -- Jehan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jehan's Profile: http://www.jabberforum.org/member.php?userid=16911 View this thread: http://www.jabberforum.org/showthread.php?t=435
