Changing the context to voice markup doesn't in any way change or address the core point, which is that you really seem to be expressing that you only care about the way that you happen to consume text and therefore any other viewpoints are superfluous. Also that you're willing to go out of your way to create and publish a plugin to effectively sabotage anyone trying to do anything else.Of all the opinions someone could hold strongly, that's certainly one of them.
AlienRobot|2 years ago
No, I only care about the way I write text. If I'm writing an article and I want to make text bold, I don't want to waste my time having to come up with a deeper explanation about WHY should the text be bold. That's an obstacle in the creative process. I want bold text. Period. I don't want <em> or <strong>, and I don't want a "bring attention to" element". I want bold.
Can you say that EVERY SINGLE TIME I want bold text that will match the semantics of <strong>? If that's true, then it shouldn't be called <strong>, it should be called <bold>. If that's not true, then one day I'll mark something as <strong> because I want bold text and it will be the incorrect tag for that text because of a semantic mismatch. In that case, what should I do? Should I just use <span style="text-weight: bold"> or <span class="bold"> for my bold text? Are you telling me that every time I want bold text I'll have to make the conscious choice of deciding whether I should use a <strong> tag or a <span> tag? Can you imagine the nightmare of making this work in a CMS like Wordpress? It would be much easier to just never use <strong> at all and just use <span> for bold every time.
If the only way to make sure you're using the semantics correctly is to just never use the tag at all, I say we just give up on this <strong> nonsense and use the <b> tag which matches the semantics of what the person writing the text wants to convey.
TomaszZielinski|2 years ago
When I read the above, I thought: you want bold, because you want to highlight a word. Because highlighting a word is a widely recognized way to bring attention to it. And so making it bold is just a tool, it's secondary to the actual goal.
I suspect you might not agree with that, but could you point me to the part where I got it wrong from your perspective?