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Posted by Stan McCann on 02/03/06 17:50
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote in
news:Xns975F6A5C7C8C5jkorpelacstutfi@193.229.4.246:
> Stan McCann <me@stanmccann.us> wrote:
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>> OK, I found where it does say "information on author" but in the
>> expanded text that clarifies usage, it says "used by authors to
>> supply contact information for a document or a major part of a
>> document" which you snipped. So, the W3C provides two statements
>> that contradict each other. "information on author" != "used by
>> authors."
>
> That's no contradiction. You can take the longer descriptive phrase
> as what it is, a note on usage rather than a definition. Even if you
> treated both as normative, there is no contradiction: they would be
> two requirements, and then correct usage would satisfy both
> requirements.
I hate to send you to a page from the old table layout tag soup pages
on a server I manage, but would you say <address> would be appropriate
for the contact information in the top part of this page:
http://alamo.nmsu.edu/programs/ ? Specifically, this portion:
Counseling Office
Student Services Building
439-3720
Advisor on Line at:
advisor@nmsua.nmsu.edu
Actually, that's one of the pages I've fixed up as I've improved my
HTML/CSS skills, not that it's perfect, but better.
> These elements reflect the word processor software practice of
> offering "bulleted lists" and "numbered lists". I would say that the
> difference is basically stylistic, with a potential semantic flavor.
>
I think you're right about the reasoning for inclusion, but with the
names, I think they have taken on a semantic flavor. But even with
<ul>, there are sometimes reasons for the order listed, just not as
strong a reason to go with <ol>. Not changing the order in the browser
is a good thing, although with most of my usage of <ul>, it wouldn't
bother me much if the order were changed in the browser.
--
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Webmaster, NMSU at Alamogordo http://alamo.nmsu.edu/
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