[thelist] <B> vs. <STRONG> -- articles on presentational vs. visual markup?

Logical vs. Physical Styles:

Perhaps this is what you're looking for:
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html#PV

another, more concise explanation is here (1995):
http://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/EJS/vol001.002/barry.abstract.html

With logical styles (STRONG or EM) you are describing where emphasis 
is to be placed in the document, not what the document is supposed to 
look like.  The browser decides HOW to display the emphasis...and, 
nowadays, the user, and/or the stylesheet.

Erika Meyer



>I'm looking for articles on why <STRONG> is better than <B> -- for the
>life of me I can't find an article I just *know* I've read.
>
>I looked all over http://www.w3.org/ but found nothing -- it seems like
>Dave Raggett had something up like this, but I couldn't find it.
>
>Does this ring any bells?
>
>	- Joe

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