On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:57:09PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 05:34:51PM -0600, Chad Perrin
wrote:
There's a difference between semantics
(justified, preformatted, list)
and content (poem, TV script, needed groceries). So, yeah, it's me
asking that.
You're correct, there's a difference.
But, as far as I can see, those first ones are rather specifically not
semantics; they're *syntax*. Looks, not meaning.
Which was sort of my point, as well, I believe, as that of Timwi.
In retrospect, the argument about what constitutes "semantic" tags could
go either way. I was thinking presentational semantics and you were
thinking of semantic presentation, basically. Yes, that's a meaningful
sentence.
I'm not sure I agree that semantic presentation is really a great idea
to implement in markup tags. Rather, it seems to be something that
should be managed via properties that are attached to tags. It provides
sort of a natural hierarchical inheritance model, rather than (by way of
analogy) sticking every single file on your hard drive in the root
directory, like the FAT12 filesystem did.
Maybe that's not a concern here, though. I admit I haven't been much
involved in thinking about wiki markup needs overall.
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