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Ambiguous means unclear meaning, not that there is more than one way to achieve the same thing. Html has that same problem. Think <b>, <strong>, <p style=“font
by kennywinker 7mo ago
Ambiguous means unclear meaning, not that there is more than one way to achieve the same thing.
Html has that same problem. Think <b>, <strong>, <p style=“font-weight: 900;”>, etc.
That’s life. Get used to it.
- IshKebab 7mo ago<b> is now hilariously called the "bring attention to" element. I shit you not.
- ceejayoz 7mo agoThat's the sort of "we started at the acronym and worked backwards" approach the Pentagon loves to do.
- qu4z-2 7mo agoI've heard them called "backronyms", which I quite like.
- tdeck 7mo agoApparently <i> is the "idiomatic text element". Maybe we can bring back all the fun tags by making them acronyms? <marquee> can be "make a really quite entertaining effect".
- singpolyma3 7mo agoThose three are not the same thing though. They might render the same visually with the most popular visual user agents, but that's about it
- kennywinker 7mo agoLooks like a duck, quacks like a duck… but is semantically different, except for when most people interact with them. My point wasn’t that they are identically - my point is that 99% of the time they achieve the same effect. Or they would be if I had swapped the <p> tag for a <span> tag.