RE: Whitespace

Dave_Raggett (dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com)
Thu, 13 Jan 94 12:21:05 GMT

> What about my suggestion at the WWW/TEI meeting to have 4-6 different
> kinds of emphasis. For instance <em1>,<em2>... or <em a>, <em b>....
> The different kinds wouldn't neccessarily be any kind of precedence
> order but would simply specify DIFFERENT kinds of emphasis for each
> of the tags. That way you could specify different words to be
> emphasised and be sure that each emphasis style will be unique.

There seems to be several choices:

a) require browsers to differentiate each of the physical
styles (B, I, U, TT and S)

b) introduce <em1>, <em2>, ...<em4>

c) Use Bryan Oakley's FACE idea and require browsers
to differentiate a small set of style names

Right now, the simplest seems to use (a) and encourage browsers
to comply with differentiating the small set of existing physical styles.

Dave Raggett