[thelist] Bold vs. Strong

rudy rudy937 at rogers.com
Wed Aug 20 07:55:03 CDT 2003


> If you embolden text for the sake of emboldening it, it strikes me as a
> visual formatting issue and not a semantic one. 

exactly

> Thus, perhaps one should use <span style='font-weight:bold'></span> 
> (or something) instead of <b></b>? 

we've already covered this 

B is much better than SPAN in this example

B is intended specifically for the stated purpose of emboldening text


> The other way to look at it would be - why would you wish to
> embolden text for no reason? 

well, i specifically said it was for a visual reason

a visual reason <em>is</em> a reason

;o)

rudy



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