[Seaside-dev] Why no <b>, <i> and <s> tags?

Johan Brichau johan at inceptive.be
Sun Oct 20 14:20:43 UTC 2013


On 20 Oct 2013, at 15:05, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Damien Cassou <damien.cassou at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> HTML define tags for b, i and s:
>> 
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/text-level-semantics.html#the-b-element
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/text-level-semantics.html#the-i-element
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/text-level-semantics.html#the-s-element
>> 
>> Why aren't these tags present in Seaside-Canvas?
> 
> For the same reason we don't support <font>. There's CSS for that.

I remember this was the case yes.
But html5 really came up with new semantics for these tags.

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-b-element

They are being used in designs such as Twitter bootstrap.

Johan


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