[dokuwiki] Re: presentation vs semantics (was Selecting a Wiki engine...)
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <tekelenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:29:36 +0200
At 13:21 +0200 UTC, on 2006-10-05, Oliver Betz wrote:
[...]
> ''Emphasize'' and '''strongly''' is not that intuitive as **bold**
> and //italic//, but bold/italic isn't the right wording, anyway, is
> it?
Ah! I hadn't noticed yet that Dokuwiki translates bold to <strong> and italic
and underline to <em>. But what's the rationale behind calling this bold,
italic and underline in the UI, even in the documentation?
FWIW, I think a nicer approach would be to name it for what it is: "emphasis"
(or "emphasize"). An appropriate icon for the toolbar might be that of an
exclamation mark. (And IMO you only need to provide 1 single emphasis
function, because <strong> isn't that useful anyway. When it's really needed,
you can nest <em>.)
After all, it's the CSS that decides on the presentation. Users get confused
if using the italics buton results in text being presented bold and red.
Also, my Dokuwiki users tend to abuse bold and italic for things that really
are headings. I strongly suspect that wouldn't happen if the UI would be more
true about what this really is about: emphasis.
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