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Posted by mbstevens on 09/04/07 01:08
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Scripsit mbstevens:
>
>> Your comments had to do with semantics.
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> Yes, _my_ comments have a meaning. (Semantics is the study of meaning.)
In any formal system, there is the syntax, which is amenable to absolute
and decidable questions of correctness or incorrectness. Onto this syntax
there might or might not be tacked on a semantics which interprets it.
Certainly, the various organizations and such can give a clear picture
of HTML's syntax, including what is definitely correct and incorrect.
But given the nature of web pages, it is impossible for the organizations to
give a complete picture of the semantics. Suggestions of what constitutes
good style certainly have value, but
questions of semantics such as you brought up were, at best,
pedantic, given that the op was really interested in the mechanics of what
was making his markup fail to show a color.
(And this is especially true since we do not have the
complete webpage and some very good pictures of the inside of the
op's head so that we can somehow devine his or her complete intentions)
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