February 3, 2004
Every which way but logical.
And while we’re in the midst of pointing out seemingly nonsensical conventions and other examples of implementation malformance, Andrei Herasimchuk (yes, that Andrei Herasimchuk…) would like to ask a few random questions about CSS & XHTML. Why on earth is it called a class? Why doesn’t font-style have the bold parameter? We lose the <b> tag to favor a more semantically correct <strong> tag. But who wants to write <strong> all the time? Was <st> taken? He’s taken a whole slew of those niggly little things that have been bouncing around in my brainpan ever since diving into the wonders of the semantic sandbox and finally typed them onto a page. None of this is going to change anything, but it feels good to have it out as an open discussion. It’s still confusing and disorienting, but in a better way.
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