[thelist] Style sheet problem!

Atkins, Chris CAtkins at patriothomes.com
Tue May 23 10:00:18 2000


Adrian,

I couldn't give you a URI either, but I can tell you that the reason that
<strong/> is preferred over <b/> is for the very reason that you mentioned -

it gives control over "presentation" of the element to the user agent.  This
is
especially important for non-graphical user agents wherein "bold" has
no real meaning.  "Strong" on the other hand has an almost universal 
meaning, and I think most UAs and users will present it as bolded text.
Ideally if you are bolding some text simply for presentation purposes you
wouldn't use <b/> but rather use the font-weight property.  Sure this might
produce compatibility problems, but only in older browsers and you also
now exactly how older browsers will render <strong/>.  So there the issue is
resolved, eh?

I read that stuff somewhere I think. :)