--- "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> Tina Holmboe wrote:
> > On 23 Jun, Jonathan Worent wrote:
> > 
> >> Currently CSS is the only way to achieve more
> than two
> >> levels of emphasis. I don't know of any browsers
> > 
> >   Neither currently, nor in the future*, can CSS
> do any such thing.
> >   There is no way to indicate emphasis using a
> stylesheet.
> 
> I'm sure he meant "*visually* indicate/achieve".
> 
> P
> -- 
> Patrick H. Lauke
> 

Yes, Patrick you're correct. There seems to have been
some confusion in what I meant. I am suggesting that
we need a way to semantically describe multiple levels
of emphasis in (x)html. It will then be up to the
browsers to represent those levels. I'm also
suggesting that we need a way to markup de-emphasis. 

Let me explain what I meant when I said we have to
rely on css for more than 2 levels of emphasis.

Take this code: 
<p>I am <em class="level1>emphasizing</em> random
<strong class="level2">words</em> to illustrate a
<strong class="level3">point</em>.

Whithout CSS <strong class="level2"> and <strong
class="level3"> are treated equally. If I want one
emphasized more than the other I must use CSS to
indicate this. Then if the CSS is ignored they are no
longer emphesized differently. I really believe this
needs to be explicit in the markup.

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