<div dir="auto">+1</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 12:26 Asmus Freytag via Unicode <<a href="mailto:unicode@unicode.org">unicode@unicode.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 3/22/2021 10:37 AM, Marius Spix via
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<div>Dear Christoph,</div>
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<div>according to Mozilla [1],</div>
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<div>"The <sup> element should only be used for
typographical reasons—that is, to change the position of the
text to complywith typographical conventions or standards,
rather than solely for presentation or appearance purposes."</div>
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<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/sup" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/sup</a></div>
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<p>Now, I have a hard time coming up with examples of "presentation
or appearance" purposes that require small, raised letters or
digits and are *not* related to some "typographical convention".</p>
<p>The problem with <sup> seems to be more in the fact that
there's more than one convention that might apply.</p>
<p>A./<br>
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<div>Marius Spix</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0"><b>Gesendet:</b> Montag,
22. März 2021 um 18:17 Uhr<br>
<b>Von:</b> "Christoph Päper via Unicode"
<a href="mailto:unicode@unicode.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><unicode@unicode.org></a><br>
<b>An:</b> <a href="mailto:unicode@unicode.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">unicode@unicode.org</a><br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: HTML entities</div>
<div name="quoted-content">Marius Spix via Unicode
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> CSS is also no solution, because <sub> and
<sub> are semantic tags (like <del>,
<strong>, <em> and <kbd>) and not just
stylistic ones (like <s>, <b>, <i> or
<tt>).<br>
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When HTML introduced the `b`/`strong` and `i`/`em`
distinctions, it should also have added
presentational/semantic pairs<br>
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- `sup`/`exp` (exponent) or `pow` (power) and<br>
- `sub`/`idx`, `ind` (index) or `base`.<br>
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I don’t think the WHATWG or W3C would be interested in
adding them now.<br>
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