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Re: replacing acronym and tt HTML elements


From: Patrice Dumas
Subject: Re: replacing acronym and tt HTML elements
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2022 15:52:36 +0200

On Sun, Aug 07, 2022 at 02:41:46PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2022 at 03:29:22PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > I think that for @t, it would be better to use
> > <span class="t"> and have span.t => font-family: monospace; as I propose
> > above, as @t has no semantic interpretation of code.  (For all the other
> > places where we used <tt> before, <code> is most likely better.)
> 
> Using an HTML tag <code> is better than using CSS because it means
> the text will be distinguished even in the absence of CSS; for example,
> in a terminal browser like Lynx, or if the CSS is disabled or missing
> for some reason.

Ok.  I am not fully convinced, but it is not that important anyway.  CSS
can be used based on the class if users wantsomething else.

-- 
Pat



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