(Now with UPDATE) Here’s how Technorati, where ultra-strict Tantek actually works, codes its weighted lists of tag terms, where more-popular terms are set in a larger font size:
<a style="font-size:16px;line-height:24px" href="/tag/Humor">Humor</a><a style="font-size:9px;line-height:24px" href="/tag/Humour">Humour</a><a style="font-size:10px;line-height:24px" href="/tag/In The News">In The News</a>
A tad crude, really. Tag ragoût, if not actual tag soup.
Self-evidently, a tag collection of this sort is an unordered list with an assumed default size that is modified by big and small:
<ul> <li><big><big>Humor</big></big></li> <li><small>Humour</small></li> <li><big><big><big>In the News</big></big></big></li> </ul>
It is of course straightforward to style such a list and its nested elements. Suddenly the HTML you use in your tag listing actually passes for semantic. And this is another example of the ways in which HTML can never be entirely structural.
Update
As I mentioned in a comment chez Müllenweg, weighted lists are a visual graphing system. The best you can do is to hope to graft on some semantics. HTML does not intrinsically provide semantics for visual graphing systems. Hence using the ur-structural em, as Tantek now proposes, is simply adding tits to a bull.
Weighted lists are presentational and my solution remains the best available. Evidence that it is the best can be derived from the fact that nobody implements it.
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.01.23 17:26. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/01/23/weighted/
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.01.22 15:25. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/01/22/wall/
Walk into any Winners® store in Canada (typical invert pronunciation: “Winnersss”) and you’ve got Vincent Connare right in your face, just as in real life with Vince.
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.01.22 15:06. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/01/22/trebuchet/
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.01.22 14:56. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/01/22/viking/
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.01.22 14:55. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/01/22/hotdog/
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.01.22 14:54. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/01/22/221-223/
My esteemed colleagues at Microsoft, assisted by a few luminaries of the type-design world (and Luc[as] de Groot!), have published an extensive body of work on the topic of the upcoming fonts custom-made for Windows Longhorn and the new version of ClearType, the anti-aliasing technology.
You can read all about them in the chapbook entitled Now Read This: The Microsoft ClearType Font Collection. You had to be at ATypI Prague to get a copy. (I wasn’t; Microsoft showed mercy and gave me a copy later.) There’s not much on the MS Typo Web site, but John Hudson has dropped his pants a little on one of those type sites that (don’t) do Web standards.
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.01.21 17:49. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/01/21/ccccccm/
If you run a Web site and you live in Canada and you want to quote somebody else’s work, what do you have to do to make sure you’re doing it legally?
In Canada, the Copyright Act tells us it isn’t an infringement to reproduce other people’s work under certain circumstances. The exemption I’ll be talking about here is fair dealing, which is noticeably different from fair use in the United States. Hence, if you’re a Canadian, do not call what you’re doing fair use and do not claim that fair use lets you do what you’re doing; there is no such thing in Canada.
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.01.19 17:30. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/01/19/fair-dealing/
Toronto pop-culture writers Adam Sternbergh and Tara Ariano have struck a deal with Quirk Books in the U.S. to publish a series of titles based on content from their Fametracker.com Web site. The inautural release, set for fall 2005, will be Hey, It’s That Guy!, a handy guide to all those faces in movies you recognize but can’t put a name to.
A real-life book publisher has contracted us to write a real-life book, tentatively titled Hey! It’s That Guy!: A Field Guide to Character Actors. It will profile 150 of your favourite character actors, from the all-time greats to the up-and-comers. And it will be published by the fine people at Quirk Books, who previously brought you The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Guide and The Brick Testament, so we’ll be in fine company. The book will be in stores in fall 2005, so start making room on your bookshelves.
I trust this book will be of entirely original “content” written solely by Sternbergh and Ariano, and not the reused, repurposed, or simply copied and stolen work of other Fametracker contributors whose permission was not sought and compensated?
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.01.16 16:51. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/01/16/original/
