- From: Chris Josephes <cpj1@winternet.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 23:12:46 -0500 (CDT)
- To: Gayle Kidder <reddik@thegroup.net>
- Cc: Stephanos Piperoglou <stephanos@hol.gr>, www-style@w3.org
On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, Gayle Kidder wrote: > simpler is always better. That's precisely why STRONG, EM, CITE, CODE, > etc. have not survived very well--they're too didactic and too complex > to explain to people--while B, I and TT seem straightforward. I think What's so difficult about STRONG or CODE? If a person REALLY wanted to learn how to write structured documents and how to take advantage of that structure they'd learn exactly what these tags are for, and why they should be used over B, I or TT. > SPACER may easily be replaced by something more straightforward, too. > But that's not to say we don't need this function. (I still like IMG > SRC=0). What could be more straightforward than settings the margins for a paragraph, such as described in CSS? In all honestly it makes a lot more sense to describe how a paragraph (or any other element) will be formatted instead of deciding how the whitespace around the paragraph will be formatted. > Gayle Kidder > > ----------------------- Christopher P. Josephes ---------------------------- Email | mailto:cpj1@winternet.com Web | http://www.winternet.com/~cpj1/
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