2010/1/16 Climis, Tim <[email protected]>: >> [my lengthy reply on semantic markup] > > Another reason is that usability-wise, only something that is a link is > supposed to be underlined on the web. For a bibliographic reference, perhaps > bolding the text instead of underlining it would be a good alternative. > Otherwise, you might have people clicking the heck out of an underlined bit > of text. >
Not sure the logic holds in a universal sense if i were typesetting some langauges accurately on the web, i'd never use underlining for hypertext links, since underlying text is the appropriate mechanism for some languages to emphasis text. there are some aspects of HTML that seem to be hardwired based on Western European typographic traditions but can not be considered universal. But then I tend to find that there are a range of HTML elements that should be avoided in web sites that are intended to be truly multilingual. Andrew -- Andrew Cunningham Vicnet Research and Development Coordinator State Library of Victoria Australia [email protected] [email protected] ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
