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Bug 12374 - "stylistically offset" means that this element has no semantic value whatsoever? It is jsut for style purpose? Then why not use a span? It seems strange to me that there is no specific element to mark up people. Even though there is a load of microdata av
Summary: "stylistically offset" means that this element has no semantic value whatsoev...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-03-24 23:00 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:03 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-03-24 23:00:30 UTC
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-b-element

Comment:
"stylistically offset" means that this element has no semantic value
whatsoever? It is jsut for style purpose? Then why not use a span? It seems
strange to me that there is no specific element to mark up people. Even though
there is a load of microdata available for them (relative, family, kin, met,
partner, spouse, etc) so why not use the b for people (but only if they need
to be marked up, e.g. to indicate relationship or in logs, etc.) It seems to
me the b has no other semantic use and all other uses mentioned here could
apply to span.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-05-08 01:17:14 UTC
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: 

The term "stylistically offset" is gone now.

Regarding marking up people, this could make sense, especially as identity becomes more important on the Web. However, it's not clear to me what exactly is needed here. Just being able to mark up someone's name doesn't seem that useful, you really want an identifier. I think this is an area that really requires more experimentation before we can standardise something.
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:03:18 UTC
mass-moved component to LC1