12374 2011-03-24 23:00:30 +0000 "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 2011-08-04 05:03:18 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-b-element P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 46973 0 contributor 2011-03-24 23:00:30 +0000 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. Posted from: 88.242.70.95 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 48316 1 ian 2011-05-08 01:17:14 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html 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. 52634 2 mike 2011-08-04 05:03:18 +0000 mass-moved component to LC1