Divide and Conquer » HTML http://www.divideandconquer.se David's Software Development Blog Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:13:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 I’m an HTML Tag Criminal http://www.divideandconquer.se/2009/06/02/im-an-html-tag-criminal/ http://www.divideandconquer.se/2009/06/02/im-an-html-tag-criminal/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:09:50 +0000 David http://www.divideandconquer.se/?p=443 I read the 10 HTML Tag Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit article and while I had suspected it for a while, I now know myself to be an HTML Tag Criminal. My biggest crime is:

Crime 4: Using <b> and <i> for Bolding and Italicizing

Actually WordPress will convert <b> and <i>to <strong> and <em>, respectively, but I’m pretty sure that my on-line diary suffer from the above crime and a few more…

]]> http://www.divideandconquer.se/2009/06/02/im-an-html-tag-criminal/feed/ 3 Sneak-peak at HTML 5 – no frames! http://www.divideandconquer.se/2008/01/23/sneak-peak-at-html-5-no-frames/ http://www.divideandconquer.se/2008/01/23/sneak-peak-at-html-5-no-frames/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:31:31 +0000 David http://www.divideandconquer.se/2008/01/23/sneak-peak-at-html-5-no-frames/ The page HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 (W3C Working Draft 22 January 2008) contains a long list of changes. The removal of frames was probably to be expected. Multiple elements and many attributes that only have a presentational function in HTML 4 are removed. There are also some elements that have slightly changed meaning, for example <i> and <b> are given a semantic rather than presentational function. Quote:

The b element now represents a span of text to be stylistically offset from the normal prose without conveying any extra importance, such as key words in a document abstract, product names in a review, or other spans of text whose typical typographic presentation is emboldened.

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