RE: [docbook-apps] Re: Including <b> and <i> in XHTML stylesheets

["Rowland, Larry" <larry.rowland@hp.com>]

There are accessibility guidelines that recommend using semantically
appropriate markup such as <em> and <strong> instead of representational
markup such as <b> and <i>.

Regards,
Larry


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-----Original Message-----
From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:jirka@kosek.cz] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 1:36 AM
To: Keith Fahlgren
Cc: DocBook Apps ML
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Including <b> and <i> in XHTML stylesheets

Keith Fahlgren wrote:
> As you've argued in the past, we don't have HTML5 stylsheets at this
> time.  As for <b> & <i>, "their use is discouraged in favor of style
> sheets." We already use strong and em for emphasis, so the remaining
> font elements are purely presentational and make it more difficult to
> style DocBook (X)HTML output using CSS.

Personally I don't care whether stylesheets will emit <b>/<i> or
<strong>/<em>. But from CSS point of view these elements could be styled
equally well.

IMHO if you generate HTML from semantically rich markup as DocBook you
are using HTML as purely presentational markup.

				Jirka

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