[wp-hackers] Tag cloud semantics

[Paul Menard]

On Jan 23, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Matt Mullenweg wrote:

> What Tantek does is actually use the <big> and <small> elements,  
> nested. He feels that's the most semantic use. You can see it in  
> action on Technorati. (Not sure if it survived redesigns after he  
> left.)

The current Technorati front page appears to use nested <em></em>  
elements. I read somewhere over the summer the <em> is one of the few  
available HTML elements that can be nested. So in effect each tag node/ 
item is wrapped in a number of nested <em> </em>s. The CSS for this is  
simpler since you can increase the relative font size by using  
something like:

<div id="tagcloud">
	<em><em><a href="">name</a></em></em>
	<em><em><em><em><a href="">WordPress</a></em></em></em></em>


#tagcloud em {
	font-style: normal;
	font-size: 1.05em;
}

This will scale the font very nicely, The obvious down side is the  
extra character count added to the weight of the page. Oh bother.

P-